This improvising group’s origins lay in the meeting of drummer Maarten van der Valk and trumpeter Jonathan Impett when both were playing in the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, a Dutch early music orchestra. Discovering a shared love of jazz, funk and fusion, they organised this session with likeminded associates for a delve into the unknown.

The twin imperatives at work throughout are austerity and looseness. Impett’s classical background resounds in his bright, clear trumpet tone and there are some severe, angular shapes with a clipped seriousness pervading several of these untitled tracks. Yet, at the same time, the date is informed by a clearly very genuine love of the vamp and a reluctance to fence things in too much.

The opening piece suggests Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time before sliding into racing free-bop with electric guitar and trumpet chasing each other around. Next up is an echo of ‘Lonely Woman’ to a subtle bossa beat. Elsewhere, the bullish experiments in funk and rhythm of On The Corner-era Miles Davis spring to mind.

Quintet Intuition never recorded again, and this wide-ranging session has taken nearly 40 years to see the light of day. We’re lucky to have it.