S'wonderful. Added to albums of the year so far to appear in the next update. Drummer, composer and influential educator Tyshawn Sorey here with pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist Matt Brewer steps away you'd think from the avant-garde for this slice of what becomes dream jazz dipping in and out of elements of a well-worn canon while still sounding like the future. Diehl responds beyond his comfort zone and is more circumspect than ever. That obliqueness he finds suits him. Brewer usually is most comfortable with for want of a better description chamber-jazz or advanced progressive sounds couched in post-bop and again seems redirected and shaped by Sorey into another fresh universe entirely.

Pieces include Horace Silver’s 'Enchantment' where Diehl strips out the Cape Verdean rhythmic ingredient to rearrange and reharmonise it in the process finding a lot more space for its motifs and sense of grace to linger that bit longer and more tellingly. Muhal Richard Abrams' 'Two Over One' and Duke Ellington's 'REM Blues' plus Paul Motian’s 'From Time to Time' are also here. The version of 'Autumn Leaves' is perhaps the weakest choice for inclusion. Sorey, in Vijay Iyer's trio on the Uneasy record, sounds very different. He casts instead a critical eye over a tradition in radical transformation and if anything hits even more of a bull's eye than on that formidable record. An early strong contender for album of the year it's not rash to claim given what we know. SG

Aaron Diehl, top left, Tyshawn Sorey, Matt Brewer. Photo: from the sleeve