Widely involved as a sideman on the New York scene, YŌM is bass player and composer Or Bareket’s fourth album as leader. The quartet he brought together in 2021 remains the same as for previous album SAHAR and there’s a comfortable warmth to their ensemble sound in the gentle fanfare of opening track ‘Tehilim 150 (Spirit Is Saying)’.

That warmth is epitomised by the track ‘Siblinghood’, a celebration of their togetherness, the light breeziness of the melody releasing Godwin Louis’ fluent alto sax over Jeremy Corren’s harmonically inventive piano. Drummer Savannah Harris comes into her own with the more complex rhythmic ideas of the labyrinthine ‘El Jardin de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan’ – a title borrowed from Jorges Luis Borges – and she revels in the showcase of ‘Concentric’, effectively a five-minute solo outing.

Bareket himself is a restrained presence much of the time, his often lyrical bass lines tight linked to Corren’s left hand, but allows himself more expression on the delicate ballad ‘Confessions’. Most effective is the brief’ 'II (for Richard Davis+Henry Grimes)’, the one track he did not compose entirely, borrowing the melody from saxophonist Nicole Glover and multi-tracking bowed bass. It is a moving tribute to two seminal bass players recently passed away and hints at an interesting compositional direction Baraket could explore further.