‘Unity’ is a good jazz word, whether you hear echoes in it of Larry Young’s increasingly freeform 1966 release of that name or of Albert Ayler’s totally freeform Spiritual Unity of two years earlier. You have to be really together (unity) to be that free. I don’t know what Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon had in mind in selecting the title for this set, recorded on tour in 2014, but the group make a sound that you could characterise as individual liberty through group single-mindedness. Salamon is a talented, highly versatile guitarist who’s turned the bassless trio into something of a signature set-up for himself, and he provides all 10 compositions here. You could hardly imagine better sidemen than Claudia Quintet founder John Hollenbeck and British saxophonist Julian Argüelles, and together they variously conjure up a squall of impressive intensity, Argüelles’s rasping sax matching Salamon’s distorted axe on the likes of ‘Drop the D’, and head off down more reflective side roads (‘Dawn’).