Not at all what I was expecting from the piano, keyboards, organ icon - best known for his long tenure with US singer-songwriter god James Taylor and jazz guitar great John Scofield among many other things. What was that expectation, pray, tell? Erm like a swinging Hammond organ trio, guv, if truth be told. He does one of those, too. Goldings has monster chops. Going through the tracks - it's a keys-trumpet duo with old mucker John Sneider, whose chops include great tonal command - 'The Veldt' was the first track that excited me. Then 'In Walked Bud' is a comfort blanket. But hey listen closely and behind the trumpet all the dinky sound effects from the keys, the layering in the production is so interesting as Sneider noodles away, his playing sounding like none other than Linley Hamilton whose Ginger's Hollow represented a career peak last year and was one of the best UK and Ireland releases of the year. It's not a surprise that Linley and his wife Maggie have booked the great Larry for a date soon in their Dechomet club in the County Down countryside - surely the Belfast jazzer will be itching to grab his trumpet for a little spot at the gig in the absence of Sneider in which Goldings is joined by pianist-singer Jake Sherman. I loved the rickety keys sounds on 'Hesitation Blues' which is quite antique and bluesy, a sort of jangling number that belongs in spirit to the 1920s - Goldings uses an unusually reverberating Wing and Son upright piano on the album among other keyboards.

And by complete contrast he also makes use of possibly bespoke programming in the synths that don't sound at all corny - the title track itself is futuristic, full of pitch bending and smeary technological sounding smudges. Best tracks, oh easily the treatment of classic Stephen Foster song 'Beautiful Dreamer' that has a very old feel to it. Sounds crazy, Larry on paper - frankly it all makes perfect sense. Goldings is to use that word I never like to use as it is a cliché but stumped for anything better it is true here so lyrical when he solos. And Sneider is just the right side of grandiose when he begins to do some flourishes later in his improvisation on that song that Bill Frisell has done so much to popularise all over again in recent years. Also a high point, the poignant heartbreaking ballad 'Diary of a Lost Girl' is a must. SG

The Magy's Farm date is 27 February and follows London shows at the Pizza Express Jazz Club over the previous two nights also duetting in the Dean Street basement. Hilariously Goldings has a soft spot for blunderingly earnest jazz educator Hans Groiner, a remarkable creation, who the Pizza says will also be putting in an appearance