For the most part jazz is urban music. It thrives amid the clamour and the crush of cities, where people and genres are thrown together. Green, the debut release from young trumpeter Tom Syson, is an exception to that rule, a defiantly rural album, inspired by Syson's home in the Bedfordshire countryside and full of space. It's a beautifully crafted piece of work, written as a suite, with short freely-improvised tracks featuring pairings from within this superb sextet punctuating the ensemble numbers. You can hear the influence of both Percy Pursglove (Syson's mentor at Birmingham Conservatoire and the album's producer) and Ambrose Akinmusire in Syson's muffled tone – his scoops, sudden leaps and strangled half-note squeals. And there's a lot of Akinmusire in the writing too. Both musicians favour churning two-chord beds, brooding pedals and intriguing, abstract melodies, which offset the bucolic whimsy. ‘Raindrops’ is a feature for the beguiling Lauren Kinsella and opens with some pointillistic improvisation; ‘Farewell To Paradise’ is an angsty highlight with a nagging piano riff; and ‘POW’ is a punky groover to finish. The opener, ‘Constant’, begins with a stinging high note from Syson before descending into blustery call and response. It's a bold statement from an exciting new voice, like Green itself.