Blue Note Records continues to play a savvy game with the UK market. After two editions of its Re:imagined series, where UK-based musicians were invited to cover their favourites tracks from the label's back catalogue, the latest compilation gives more freedom to a group of musicians linked by their involvement with the London hub.

Transmissions navigates the problem that every compilation carries – maintaining a diversity of sound without sounding disparate – by including interesting, out-of-the-box collaborations, many from across the pond. There are so many artists crammed into the seven tracks, a reminder (if any was needed) that there's music brimming with life in the capital, regardless of whether it fits into existing ‘London jazz’ narratives.

Soccer96 (two thirds of The Comet Is Coming) open with a simmering track fronted by rapper Kieron Boothe, followed by Byron Wallen's well-developed and aesthetically intriguing ‘Closed Circle’ (though the recorded strings that open and close this particular circle sound strange). Don't let the word-salad of Melbourne band Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange get in the way of their fun, funk-flecked house, and Neue Grafik's drill-ish collaboration with Brother Portrait and London saxophonist XVNGO (pronounced ‘shango’) on ‘Black’ – a standout track on this album – shows the fringes are where this scene's most interesting experiments are occurring.