Also featured on the excellent J Jazz compilation, to be reviewed next issue, Japanese pianist Makoto Terashita is a revelation. Beautiful touch, strong, skipping rhythmic sense and fluent lyricism place him in a Tyner lineage. He found his Coltrane in American tenor-sax warrior Harold Land on a one-off session recorded in 1984. While the debt to ‘Ohnedaruth’ is writ large at times the music, nonetheless, has its own identity as the ensemble puts a pleasingly fresh stamp on modal and post-bop templates, with the band really hitting a creative peak when it crafts a skilful synthesis of disparate elements. ‘World Peace’ is a highlight in this respect. Land plays a deeply plaintive theme that bears a strong kinship to ‘Naima’, but rather than be a still-of-the-night ballad the song has a driving rhythmic undertow created by clicking percussion and sturdy bass pedal point. Elsewhere, the simpatico relationship between the two joint leaders comes well to the fore, and the alternation of their solos is invigorating for the shared tonal strength and dynamic phrasing. An advert for a relatively unknown musician who more than holds his own in the company of a stellar American – this is a valuable document for which BBE should be heartily commended.