Landgren may have cornered the market on Scandinavian funk, but his excursions into The Great American Songbook are more enjoyable. Landgren is the Chet Baker of the trombone, his singing voice fragile and melancholic but he holds a tune with a clarity which is charming and affecting. This is most evident on ‘Somewhere’, with Landgren’s voice naked against stripped down piano. By canny contrast, Siegel has a bigger, showbiz slant, distilling her Manhattan Transfer years into a sensitive take on ‘The Story of My Life’ or gently swinging on ‘Lucky To Be Me’. Stir into the mix none other than Vince Mendoza with his lustrous orchestrations and Landgren has compiled something of a dream team. He’s able to segue between the intimacies of a jazz trio, as on the cool ‘Cool’ or nest his sumptuous ’bone into the orchestral richness of ‘Maria’. Some Other Time may be no edgier than a marshmallow, but it’s an album you’ll play, love and return to time and again.