Saxophonist Jeff Coffin – formerly of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, now of the Dave Matthews Band – is a busy touring musician. Lockdown put paid to his road-going ways for a while, however, and gave him the space and time to write and record not just one but – by his own account – six or seven complete records. This one, Between Dreaming and Joy, features, if not quite a cast of thousands, then at least dozens of musicians, none of whom was ever in the same space when they recorded their parts – a very 2020–21 phenomenon. Alongside traditional instrumentation are sounds that are less familiar in the jazz context: super-funky opener ‘Vinnie the Crow’ has turntable work courtesy of DJ Logic, for instance, while the ethereal ‘When Birds Sing’ has vocals and ngoni work from Sarah Ariche, frame drums, doholla and much else from Michael League, and bungee chair bass from the leader himself. The standout cut for me is the stirring bluesy title track, which begins with music from an ice-cream van – what else? – before adding gargantuan slide guitar work from Marcus King.