Kenny Wheeler’s final frailty and beloved stature were both shown by his 2013 London Jazz Festival swansong, when, months before his death, the body could only shakily obey his trumpeter’s intent. That same year, though, his fertile, undimmed mind composed this last large-scale commission, sending his music back home to Canada’s Hard Rubber Orchestra, who play both jazz and so-called ‘new music’. With Norma Winstone as vocalist, it’s a fitting coda to a prodigious career. The full orchestra surges sparingly; familiar with big bands since the 1940s, Wheeler wouldn’t overplay their power. Instead, woodwind and the wordless Winstone both caress ‘Movement I’, while Mike Herriott’s trumpet dances with the singer till both skip and fly free. Brad Turner’s solo trumpet in the improv passages consciously echoes Wheeler, as on the wistfully yearning ‘Improvisation I’. Altoist Campbell Ryga’s bittersweet, worldly acceptance in ‘Movement IV’ and warm, mild-mannered loveliness on ‘Movement V’ are still more emotionally apt. Leytonstone’s finest artistic resident since Hitchcock theoretically wrote his own send-off here. But this music makes him sound so alive.