Quartet record Oak Tree is out next month, the latest from the great trumpeter and flugel player Tom Harrell who continues to inspire new generations of players and whose work is avidly collected by record buyers for all the right reasons - chiefly the ability to move. You can listen to the pleasantly invasive fragility of 'Shadows' containing a sort of a samba feel to it that gathers its own warts and all modal gravity wrapped around it. There is a slight sense in the passages involving overdubbed horn harmonies of the way Gil Evans liked to draw out delicate light in his writing. Harrell on this HighNote album is with pianist Luis Perdomo, tremendous last year with Miguel Zenón on El Arte Del Bolero; bassist Ugonna Okegwo heard recently on Aaron Seeber's excellent First Move; and completing the personnel drummer Adam Cruz who was on Harrell's beautiful album Infinity contributing percussion and is an alert presence as the piece eases on to achieve a fine resolution. 'Shadows' arrives in the latter part of Oak Tree which is out on 15 July.