After a jazz education at the Guildhall School of Music in 1990, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Jim Howard returned to his first love - music for movies. In the 1990s, he studied composing at the National Film and Television School, since when he has regularly scored for documentaries in the UK and Europe, as well as running his occasional bands Forever Between (exploring electronica and improv), and FilmBand, covering classic film music.

These 10 tracks feature Howard's mellow, warm-toned, gracefully circuitous long-lined themes, often delivered in muted-Miles brass tones, over laid-back, tone-rich, hand-drummed grooves and looping ostinatos from guitar and oud. Howard says his music seeks to convey impressions of locations and journeys, and certainly the spacey, slowly-whispered theme of ‘Siya' evokes anything from sunbaked deserts to snowscapes (his horn hints at the Miles of Sketches of Spain in it), while ‘I'm Going To The Place I Call Home' - stretching a solemn flugel line over synth swirls and then distorted-guitar sounds - similarly conjures the sense of a long, slow trip. ‘Lone Light' sounds eerily like a soft-textured Salvation Army band, ‘Leaving Tangier' segues a wistful trumpet figure, a twangy guitar hook and a synth-mimicked big-band riff, and the tender melody of ‘My Father's Hands' has a haunting Celtic ring. From a jazz perspective it's perhaps rather slowly-eventful music, but there's no doubting why Jim Howard's jazz-steeped melodic imagination has flourished in the demanding world of composing for pictures.