In the months following David Bowie's death, musical tributes started to pour in, among them the disastrous Bowie Prom in September at the Royal Albert Hall. So when the real thing comes along you know it's time to rejoice. Beyond Now is the outstanding new recording by the New York-based saxophonist Donny McCaslin with the same line-up that appeared on Bowie's swansong Blackstar. It's an exhilarating, heart-stirring hymn to a rock'n'roll icon, a rare breed of mega star who absorbed jazz undiluted into his genre-bending art pop aesthetic. It's a love letter too, to someone who had a huge impact on these jazz musicians as both artist and human being.

From the epic dreamy pop-jazz soundscapes of ‘Bright Abyss’ and ‘Remain’, to the hurtling punk jazz of ‘Faceplant’ and opener ‘Shake Loose’, Lindner's spiky synth-surge, the Guiliana-Lefebvre grooving juggernaut and McCaslin's thrillingly ballistic sax improv make for a decidedly diverse and contemporary-sounding offering packing plenty of heat. Elsewhere, eerily inventive covers of the Bowie-Eno ‘A Small Plot of Land’ (vocals by Jeff Taylor) and Low period instrumental ‘Warszawa’ come in for tasteful treatment too. If a rock star has come up with one of the strongest jazz-infused releases of the year, Beyond Now is right up there with it.