Tenerife's highlands and sea-of-clouds coastline are spiritual homes for the imaginative British saxophonist Tori Freestone, who took a break there at the end of 2017 to clear her head for new work. The outcome is this music, on the third recording in five years by her much-praised trio with bassist Dave Manington and drummer Tim Giles. Their close-knit partnership sounds sharper still with this set, in which Freestone's dexterity with long, twist-packed improvisations grows in assurance, and the propulsion and anticipation of the other two along with it. On the plaintive, gliding intro to the title-track, Freestone's fragile upper sounds and warm mid-tones curl over prodding bass and firm brushwork before she lengthens and accelerates her lines in laidback ways that recall Warne Marsh. Rhythms sometimes start edgy and loosen up, as in the exclamatory, initially drumless, five-note theme of ‘Hiding Jekyll’, which becomes a free-boppish swinger. Freestone's two tenor accounts of ‘Shenandoah’ (there's also a vocal one) mix biting sounds and shy quivers, reshaping the famous melody a little at a time. Sam Rivers' ‘Beatrice’, a heartfelt tribute to one of Freestone's key sax-trio models, is a blend of graceful melody and a quiet twister of a solo, and ‘Los Indianos’ (Freestone calls it “a messed-up calypso groove”) pings with Giles' percussion vitality. Tori Freestone's belief that El Mar de Nubes represents another level for this fine band is no exaggeration.