Jacob Garchik is a New Yorkbased multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger who has worked with Lee Konitz, Henry Threadgill, John Hollenbeck and Steve Swallow. He also arranges music for the Kronos Quartet. Three years after The Heavens, his acclaimed ‘atheist gospel trombone album’, he's back with a record inspired by Brooklyn's faux medieval architecture (hence the olde worlde title). Rather than over-dubbing trombone parts, this time he's recruited some of the leading lights of Brooklyn's avantgarde scene – among them Mary Halvorson, a welcome addition to any album. Thankfully, the minstrels and mead, like the folklore and folderol, are largely confined to the track titles, artwork and liner notes (‘The epic tale of which I tell below takes place in Flatbush, 1,000 years ago. Our heroes met and formed a merry band…’). There's no sense of pastiche about the music itself, which is better described as ye downtown prog.