The Finnish multi-musician and composer Lassi Lehto aka Jimi Tenor has previously worked with Afrobeat legend Tony Allen and Belgian big band Flat Earth Society. He's a nattily dressed dude who likes to mix jazz with sounds from the quirky musical universe of exotica. On Mysterium Magnum he has composed and arranged a series of compositions for the Finnish National Jazz Orchestra UMO. It's a cocktail of smokey 1960s soul jazz, film music sounds ranging from Morricone through to Lalo Schifrin-ish sinister-hued orchestral riffs and blasts of crime noir, space age synth era Sun Ra – utilising the Soviet era synth RITM-2 – through to the Olivier Messiaen-like edgily tonal, African percussion and 1990s nu-jazz. It might sound like he's heading in too many directions at once but Tenor has all the craft, experience and taste needed to achieve a hip and highly personal sound. It's a heap of fun as well.