Young saxophonist Matt Anderson won the Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in 2017 and you can hear why. The writing on Rambling, the follow-up to his Shorter-inspired debut, Wild Flower, is outstanding: varied and imaginative. Each tune offers something different. Opener ‘Jig, Jag, Jug’ features a rich brass chorale and darting lines that crowd in towards the end of Anderson's solo. The chorale is reprised for the final track – bringing the album full circle and adding to the sense of craft. ‘The Ayes Have It’ kicks off with a folky piano drone, swings hard and then dissolves into textural improvisation. ‘The Long White Cloud’ is a crunchy, brass-heavy interlude framed by vaporous reverb, while the guitar-led ‘Nordic Blues’ is what you’d expect, with added country music echoes. Peter Lee's exploratory piano solos are a highlight, as is guest Nick Malcolm's Ambrose-ial trumpet playing. There's a beautiful warmth to Anderson's sound that suffuses the whole album. He cites his childhood home on the North Yorkshire Moors as an inspiration. That’ll be sun-dappled, God's Own Country, Yorkshire then. There's scarcely a bleak moment here.