The screen print portrait of the 26-year-old bassist Tim Thornton on the CD sleeve of The Feel Good Place bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Charles Mingus. It might not be unintentional as Tim Thornton's resonant, rounded, rubbery and blues-ish tone reflects something of the great acoustic bassist and Thornton's second album as bandleader certainly draws from the gospel roots of the bop-rooted jazz coming out of the US in the 1960s. The quartet has been a weekly resident at Ronnie Scott's recently and is made up of the kind of young musicians keeping alive an essential strand of dedicated swingin’ British jazz, undistracted though not entirely detached from contemporary developments. Collectively they can be heard making ends meet working in diverse areas of popular music as well as jazz from Joss Stone, Roni Size and Gregory Porter through to Dennis Rollins, Clare Teal and Reuben Fowler. Unlike Thornton's debut New Kid in 2012 that's made up of mostly standards, The Feel Good Place contains his playful, blues-infused originals and just the one cover, a latin music coloured version of The Beatles ballad ‘Here There and Everywhere’. The performances have a youthful vigour and raw spontaneity to them, particularly from the impressive alto saxophonist James Gardiner-Bateman whose restless bluesy bop intensity is at times reflective of the west coast sax giant Art Pepper. As suggested by the album title, The Feel Good Place is where Tim Thornton ultimately wants to take you and in that he has done a good job.