This lushly orchestral set from the James Taylor Quartet sounds like a compilation of all your favourite, unfairly forgotten film theme tunes from the 1960s and 70s. If titles like ‘Cold War Etiquette’ put you in mind of Ipcress File-era Michael Caine, wait until you hear the tracks themselves. Hands up who remembers ‘The Moneyspyder’ when it was first released? Three decades and more on from the days when the JTQ first came through as leading lights of the acid-jazz/jazz-funk scene, Taylor has returned to that track and it emerges here in a suitably bold-and-brassy, widescreen incarnation featuring Taylor on Wurlitzer. Elsewhere you’ll find the leader on Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, Moog, and even taking to the theremin and providing vocals for ‘Diametric Opposition’, his contribution giving the track a wonderful, soaring, out-of-this-world quality. It’s a fine, energising set that should send you back out into the street with a swing in your step.