Successful multi-tasking is an art in itself, which many aspire to, but few genuinely master. You have to be a bit special to pull that off – there have been many studies that all conclude that when most of us think we are successfully multi-tasking, empirical tests reveal we are doing the opposite. Obviously, they had not met Berlin-based Mantwill – she composed and arranged all nine originals, put a 26 piece band together and rehearsed them, organised performance opportunities for her band and recorded and produced this excellent debut album. Oh, and she played saxes, sang and conducted as well.

"I love challenges," she says in masterful understatement, since to come up with an artwork of this standing deserves a socially distanced ovation. She has turned the big band tradition on its head by experimenting with instruments primarily associated with the classical world. To Mantwill, strings and harp are not merely additions to the ensemble, they function in a way that give voice to her musical vision.

Her guest soloists get Mantwill, they understand her compositional intent and work within the context of her music, so that solo and ensemble weave around each other without disjunction. Listen to the small beginnings of ‘Erwachen’ and how it grows and grows, programmatically inspired by ‘The Viking Boatyard’ in the Isle of Skye. Yes, the majority of her orchestra may come from the classical world, but they are given pieces of conceptual and programmatic originality that makes genre distinction irrelevant – it was Duke Ellington, after all, who said, "There are only two types of music, good and bad," and this most assuredly is of the former variety.