As national jazz orchestras go, Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos is remarkably progressive, performing repertoires of all aesthetic variants and styles, pleasing new music fans and government ministers alike. Over the past 23 years the contemporary big band has collaborated with everyone from Carla Bley to Joshua Redman and Andy Sheppard; since 2018 OJM has been based at its very own CARA centre, a performance space intent on promoting dialogue between art, science and technology. So to this (first-ever) live recording of George Russell's seminal 1960 album, a suite of pieces featuring melodic and rhythmic interplay, passages composed and improvised and famously, the synergetic piano duo of Bill Evans and Paul Bley. Russell's complex chord scale theory is showcased in three short ‘Chromatic Universe’ tracks and three longer detailed numbers; here, under the aegis of conductor Pedro Guedes, with original arrangements transcribed by Telmo Marques, guest pianists João Paulo Esteves da Silva and José Diogo Martins battle it out on ‘The Lydiot’, listening as closely to each other as Evans and Bley ever did. The push-me, pull-you vibe of gravity and space is finely conjured by horns and woodwind, while an all-in big band reach colours this universe with meteorites and planets. A mesmerising tribute to Russell's (jazz) music of the spheres.