Gillece and this rhythm trio featured on his Posi-Tone album Still Doing Our Thing reviewed in our May edition. Here they back up the 28-year-old Tarantino, named by Jazz Times as among ‘The Top 5 Altoists of 2019’, on her third album for this label.

Clearly highly rated, she has connections with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center set-up as both faculty person and performer. So what to make of Ms Tarantino? Given the variety of pieces on the album, all bar Wayne Shorter's ‘Iris’ and his ‘Lady Day’ contributed by the quintet, one senses a player of considerable quality, her alto sound nicely centred, the improvisations poised, pianist Hirahara and Gillec adding quality wherever they can.

She's assured, fluent and clearly has her own ideas but it remains a disappointment that the mood here is largely reflective, often elegiac, and when it comes to the Shorter pieces, almost reverential. How one longs for some assertive blowing but her notes make it clear that was never going to be on offer. There's nothing resembling a post¬Parker edge here at all.

Gillece's ‘Mindful Moments’ highlights her alto flute and is solemn, still, like the light on calm water. This essentially programmatic quality imbues many of these pieces, each designed to convey particular moods and resembling what she calls ‘sound paintings’. As an alternative, Royston's ‘Rootless Ruthlessness’ moves into more esoteric territory; it's almost raucous at times. It would be good to hear Tarentino with another horn alongside.