Bop-schooled hotshots infusing hip hop, R&B, neo-soul and electronics into classic-jazz sounds haven’t exactly been hot news for years, but the last decade's output of the 37- year-old, Chicago-raised Marquis Hill (a trumpeter with a warmly belling, distantly Clifford Brownish tone and a songlike melodic sense), has kept his profile sharp.

A raft of awards - including the 2014 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet prize, and a Concord Records deal - spotlighted Hill as a newcomer to watch, but so did his obvious determination to foreground an African-American political and philosophical perspective that made sense of it all for him.

After his self-released albums of 2011-14, Concord's 2016 standards-reworking set The Way We Play, and Edition's recent New Gospel Revisited, and Rituals + Routines, the 18 mostly short tracks of Beyond the Jukebox join the trumpeter's sharp quintet including vibes star Joel Ross to contributions from guests including Gerald Clayton and Makaya McCraven.

A humdrum spoken-word homily on the rare courage originals need introduces the opening ‘A Star Is Born’, before Hill and Joel Ross uncork shapely improvisations over tight hip hop drums. The fluent double-time bop of guest alto saxists Josh Johnson and Caroline Davis cruise across the contemporary grooves of ‘Joseph Beat’ and ‘Smo Melody n Shit’, there's an almost-Milesian muted-horn and chilled-synths ‘Time After Time’ vibe to ‘The Cool’, and ‘Two Check (for the Rich and Wealthy) unleashes an unexpectedly scalding fast-bop swinger from the mischievous intro of a ka-ching cash-till clang.

The talented Hill may be trying to hit too many stylistic buttons (particularly with spoken-word and some lyrically prosaic neo-soul songs) on this set, but much of the jazz-blowing is exhilarating.