Since the start of the millennium, the Birmingham-based trumpeter/flugelhornist Bryan Corbett has been marking his territory somewhere between the soundworlds of hard bop, post-electric Miles funk and contemporary clubland jazz, with his background as a longtime member of chart-topping acid jazz samplers US3. His plaudits have often been for live performance and this very impressive two-disc set recorded at the Fleece Jazz in Colchester in April this year is testament to that. Corbett's playing is rousing and fierily expressive and his band are right on top of it, suggesting it was a memorable evening for those present. Aside from a love of the fuller, songlike tone and wittily extrovert approach to trumpet playing that draws from Louis Armstrong through to Freddie Hubbard (who's referenced in a Corbett original ‘Old Mother Funkin’ Hubbard’) and Woody Shaw, Corbett also shows he's able to rise above the naffness of much contemporary jazz fusion on the tender funk CTI-ish ‘Cathedral Ruin’, a soul jazz-y ‘One ‘O’ Six’ and a smoky low-lights rendition of ‘Let's Get Lost’, the song associated with Chet Baker.