Trevor Watts shows his jazz roots are still a major part of his playing as he storms through this powerful set of solo pieces that were recorded during his period of lockdown. As the Covid-19 virus raged outside, Watts' response was to return to the music that originally prompted him to pick up his saxophone – and just blow his isolation blues away. Made up of eight separate solos for alto and soprano sax (each tagged with the title ‘I so elated’… geddit?), the exercise rekindles his love of bebop and modern jazz forms, as well as pushing his instinctive need to improvise to the fore. Despite his forced confinement, Watts is in exceptionally fine voice here, letting loose warm gusts of trilling notes that echo with the possible inspiration of an amplified dawn chorus. The Lockdown Solos is a timely message of musical freedom with a reverberation that will last longer than the pandemic that caused it to happen.