This duo of Paul Dunmall and American drummer Tony Bianco recalls immediately Trane's work with Elvin Jones and later Rashied Ali. There's no faulting the playing or the choice of material. It's a good record, tense, edgy and challenging like the great man's music. But it is also just what one might have expected and doesn't reach beyond those expectations. It's a matter of setting the mics up, getting the tape rolling and blowing. The shorter pieces, such as ‘Naima’ and ‘Alabama’, are most affecting, while the long version of ‘Expression’ didn't really sustain interest. It's not about presentation, more a matter of asking how the master might have played this music today.

Dunmall's performance of composer Brian Irvine's Montana Strange is a complete contrast and offers some of his most lyrical playing. It's a piece for symphony orchestra, improvising saxophonist and Irvine's own distinctive chamber group. Inspired by the films of David Lynch, the music has much of that sense of unreality and of impending violence that characterises Lynch's work. Most importantly, its different elements combine beautifully in what is a most unusual and intriguing release.