When they made their fine Postcards from Pushkin duo album seven years ago, the expat British trumpeter Tom Arthurs and the John Taylor-mentored pianist Richard Fairhurst showed just how closely-attuned they were. One Year is a group update on a series of thematic fragments Arthurs composed during some down-time in 2014 – Fairhurst partners him again, and the pair are joined by the remarkable Finnish percussionist Markku Ounaskari. If you didn't know this wasn't an ECM album you might start looking for the label – the recording quality, spaciousness, melodic minimalism and savouring of the smallest sounds all suggest it. There's a meticulously-applied key role for composition too, but individual and collective improvisation is always creatively counterbalanced with the structures. Arthurs' pure sound and flawless upper pitching are immediately established on the opening ‘Evergreens’, Ounaskari beautifully reflecting the light touch of the proceedings in soft cymbal tingles and distant marching patterns. ‘One Year/Song’ is taken at a sway that suggests one of the late Kenny Wheeler's mournful dances, ‘Rising’ accelerates from slowly seesawing trumpet notes and piano asides to a culminating Arthurs' solo in which all his melodic flexibility and audacity cut thrillingly loose. One Year has its sombre moments, but a freewheeling dynamism is always waiting in the wings.