Jazz is all about making it up as you go along, so in many ways what you get on this debut release from drummer Clive Fenner’s new quartet is the very quintessence of the genre. Recorded live at the Eastside Jazz Club, Leytonstone, London, on what was only the group’s second performance, it consists of eight standards given a thorough working-over by four talented musicians who know instinctively when to stand together and when to pull apart. The material is pleasantly varied, running from Joey Calderazzo’s ‘Midnight Voyage’ to Ornette Coleman’s ‘Ramblin’’ via Count Basie’s ‘Topsy’. The treatments are light and breezy, although the boys know how to ratchet up the intensity, as on Thelonious Monk’s ‘Green Chimneys’, which draws to a standstill and then relaunches into a brilliant passage of interplay between Martin Hathaway’s alto sax and Mark Ridout’s electric guitar, all floated on Geoff Gascoyne’s bubbling bass. That’s followed by a gently swooning take on the Beach Boys’ ‘God Only Knows’, a romantic high point of a consistently entertaining set.