Formed in 2014, the moniker New Simplicity Trio is inspired by the breed of late 1970s German contemporary music composers that rejected the complexity of the new avant-garde. They are a London-based piano trio made up of German-born pianist-composer Bruno Heinen, Italian drummer Antonio Fusco and Danish double-bassist Henrik Jensen. New Simplicity Trio entirely live up to their moniker with a ‘less is more’ approach to melody and harmony, and a collective view to exploring what might be the Common Spaces of the album title. Heinen has made an impression already as a pianist-composer looking to remodel a classical music repertoire through the prism of contemporary jazz and improvised music, using Stockhausen and more recently Vivaldi as points of departure on recordings released, as is this one, through the London-based Babel Label. Common Spaces has a democratic collective approach to writing, and Heinen's playing echoes his unfashionably lyrical, classical music-orientated influences from Bill Evans (he recorded a tribute CD in 2015 with guitarist Kristian Borring), Dave Brubeck through to Fred Hersch and his former Royal Academy mentor, the late John Taylor. Nevertheless, some evidence here of acoustic looping and contemporary grooves sounds like the work of a newer generation. That the only cover, of Mingus' ‘Goodbye Pork Pie Hat’, is of lesser interest reflects the high quality of the writing and its intimate execution.