Just as in a card game blow-hard bluffers can risk overplaying their hands, so in music hard-blowing jazzers are sometimes in danger of overplaying their sax. Especially in a trio setting with no chordal instrument. Happily, Josephine Davies, in consistently inventive, witty mood here, never even comes close to overstatement on this self-produced disc for Whirlwind Recordings, despite the need to improvise continuously. Davies can regularly be found in bigger band (or just plain big-band) configurations, as composer and tenorist for the London Jazz Orchestra or on Pete Hurt's recent A New Start album. Those are more restrictive. But here it's a love for the stripped-down groups of Sonny Rollins and others that takes centre-stage: ‘Paradoxy’ and ‘Paradoxy Alternate Take’ are homages to Rollins, while the 12-bar ‘Something Small’ conjures the ghost of Albert Ayler and ‘Crisp Otter’ invokes (at least titularly) Chris Potter. Davies is good at titles – ‘The Tempest Prognosticator’ alludes to a 19th-century invention using leeches to predict storms, while the set title, Satori, is a Buddhist term for awakening. Recorded on two separate dates at I'klectik in London, one in front of a live audience, the whole is a testament to Davies' lyrical flow and to her collaborators' – Dave Whitford on bass and Paul Clarvis on drums – ability to go with it.