Album number five from vocalist Jacqui Dankworth confirms her ability to really take you inside a song, whether reinvented standard or newly composed. With its references to entropy, photons and inflation fields, the singer’s quantum mechanics-inspired vocalese based on her late father’s classic theme tune to Tomorrow’s World is startlingly good, as is her other vocalese based on Wayne Shorter’s ‘Palladium’. There are remarkable ballads, notably ‘All Is Quiet’, penned by the singer and bassist/producer Geoff Gascoyne (one of three tracks to feature The Brodsky Quartet), a dramatically stripped down bass/voice interpretation of Johnny Mercer’s ‘Something’s Gotta Give’, plus an unfailingly beautiful take on Donny Hathaway’s ‘Someday We’ll All Be Free’. The singer’s husband, Charlie Wood, is a key presence on the date, contributing not only piano, Fender Rhodes, organ and backing vocals, but also penning the affecting title track, the uncomplicated ‘Simple As’, and co-writing ‘A Certain Kind Of Eden’ – one of the album’s highlights – with Dankworth.