Circularity, the title of Julian Argüelles' debut album for the major Italian label Cam Jazz, perhaps refers to the point at which the saxophonist-composer has now reached on his artistic path. Long time collaborator and pianist John Taylor (an established Cam Jazz artist) and drummer Martin France both appeared together with Argüelles on his debut album Phaedrus in 1991, and the Loose Tubes reformation this month, is a return to the band from which he initially emerged as a fledgling youth. Since that time, Argüelles has evolved into a highly expressive jazz musician with a global dimension, and is as at home working with large Euro-jazz orchestras as he is with New York's grungy downtown jazzers. He's oddly admired more in mainland Europe than his own country. The fourth member of the band is none other than Dave Holland, giving the line up a high-level Best of British feel. Circularity carries the Arguelles traits of whirling folk-dance expressiveness as well as a more warmly robust post-bop; he's someone who has absorbed Ornette Coleman as much as Jan Garbarek but ends up sounding like neither. The opener ‘Triality’ has Argüelles in Coltrane-esque mood and the sheer class of Dave Holland, Martin France, and the gracefully unpredictable pianist John Taylor is clear from the start. Argüelles is an accomplished writer too and if Circularity comes across as a more sober, less airy album than the best CDs in his rich discography, its vintage quality and inventiveness is the kind for which jazz fans are always thankful for.