The young drummer-leader Sam Jeeson is still promoting a weekly night at The Post Bar in Tottenham dubbed The Magpie Sessions, at which musicians explore the work of an influential jazz composer. His Magpie Trio takes its name from the sessions and their point of departure is the great Ahmad Jamal Trio. Live was recorded at Oswestry's Hermon Chapel Arts Centre, one of the performances in an extensive UK tour at the end of last year. George Crowley's tenor reflects the playful riff-y qualities and raw, bare-boned economy of the Jamal aesthetic but filtered through a personalised vocabulary that draws from cool school as well as free jazz and much in between, demonstrated by his impressively shaped soloing on ‘Richard Rodgers’ ‘It's Easy to Remember’. The consummate Empirical bassist Tom Farmer's arco sub-bass growls and harmonics effectively simmer under Crowley's tenderly plain-speaking version of the Debussy-like theme of Ellington- Strayhorn's ‘Single Petal of a Rose’ while ‘Autumn Leaves’ sees Jeeson's crisply hurtling drums and Crowley's Coltrane-y sax push things into a freer jazz area. The less-is-more of Ahmad Jamal's version of Ernesto Lecuona's ‘The Breeze and I’ is mirrored, even intensified with Jeeson's Cuban-ish groove bordering on the meditative. Jeeson is a new name to this writer but on the evidence here he's someone definitely worth keeping an eye on.