Burnley-born double bassist Gary Brunton was once entranced by the playing of Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers, but then decided that jazz was more his thing. That’s obviously not proved to be a bad choice: the debut release by his piano trio Night Bus (with Bojan Z on piano and Simon Goubert on drums) made it into DownBeat’s top 20 albums of 2019. Bojan Z served as session producer of this new quartet disc, Trên Dydd (Welsh for ‘Day Train’), which takes listeners on an invigorating journey, with 13 stops along the way: ‘Dirty Bebop’ is a tidy return to the spirit of mid-century jazz; ‘Land of My Fathers, You Dig’ is not just a great title but an opportunity for François Jeanneau to play the Welsh national anthem on soprano sax.

There are tributes to family on the likes of bass solo ‘So, What’s Happening at Christmas?’ and the urbane, rhythmically slippery ‘Burnley or Bethlehem’, and to the wonders of the landscape on ‘Up Pendle’. The waltzing ‘Good Shalt Prevail’ brings proceedings to a close on a gently optimistic note.