This new UK trio's name is a tip of the hat to the 1977 album of the same name by alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe – and there are plenty of points of reference: Oren Marshall provides some of the same snuffling bounce as tuba player Bob Stewart added to Blythe's session (the two have also collaborated), and Finn Peters worked with Bythe's drummer of choice, Steve Reid, before his death in 2009. Here, with drummer Tom Skinner, they revel in light-footed play that's imploring you to get up and dance even while it's tumbling in freeform elasticity. Marshall's tuba basslines are a deciding factor here, with a mobile parp that burrows right into the deep fluid of the groove, whether on the New Orleans street shuffle of ‘Acorn’ or the slow and soulful ‘The 199 Blues’. Peters' alto has an agile sweetness throughout, while his flute sings like a moonlit ocarina on ‘Saladin’, a delightful approximation of Sun Ra's late-1950s camel-train exotica. Bursting with spontaneous interaction and real-time joy, it's a life-affirming, human music – and one to stick in the eye of the next ‘jazz-is-dead’ bore you encounter.