The innovative Seattle-raised drummer/composer Jim Black's work over three decades – from his own adventurous projects to collaborations with luminaries like Dave Douglas, David Liebman, Tim Berne and Uri Caine – has brought him fans from all directions, from sharp-end jazz to electronica, grunge, alt-rock and beyond.

Reckon is the fourth release by Black's piano trio, featuring young Austrian keys virtuoso Elias Stemeseder, and Paul Motian and Bill Frisell bassist Thomas Morgan, and its eleven shortish tracks bristle with restless animation. ‘Astrono Said So’ opens as a pumping ensemble barrage and develops in fast, episodic, free-piano figures over a seamless percussion clatter and buoyant bass undertow. ‘Tripped Overhue’ opens as a dreamy reverie but uncorks surging solos from Stemeseder and Morgan over Black's accelerating running-footsteps sound, while the initial stamping pulse shifting to a more fluid jazzy swirl on ‘Tighter Whined’ sounds composed but was largely improvised, as most of this session was.

Sometimes this remarkable music sounds hooky and minimalist, sometimes it's trancelike (though it is usually lurching with Black's characteristic mix of floating and disrupted time), and Stemeseder reveals himself as a prepared-piano improviser in Keith Tippett's league on ‘Next Razor World’ and ‘This One and This Too’. Jim Black's exhilarating group continue to map out a jazz piano trio world all of their own.