The runaway success of 2015's The Epic and the subsequent wave of global touring made Washington into something of a phenomenon. The Los Angeles-born saxophonist found himself on the bill of major rock and pop as well as jazz festivals, and has now moved to a label, Young Turks, whose parent company XL has a roster that includes such behemoths as Radiohead, Adele and Jack White. Which means Washington has the necessary budget to fulfill his vision. If the aforementioned material was distinguished by its lush, expansive sound palette then this work simply goes one step further, presenting an even more multi-layered model that practically demands quadraphonic equipment to do it justice. Having said that, Heaven And Earth also picks up very much where The Epic and the six-track EP Harmony Of Difference left off in terms of themes and riffs. Washington's role models, from Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders to Horace Tapscott and Gerald Wilson all subscribed to the principle of emotional depth and timbral density in different ways, and the saxophonist draws from all of them, casting molten, if not incandescent solos against rhapsodic scores for 13-piece choir, 26-piece orchestra and double rhythm-section to create a feeling of ascension marked by both lyricism and a film soundtrack majesty. With its rhythmic eddies and swirls and flourishing, uplifting harmonies, the template, is a wholly distinctive one, to say the least. So far Washington's breadth of ambition warrants such substantial resources, and the results are largely impressive. It will be interesting to see how he might get his message across in a far more scaled down setting.