This is a versatile ensemble whose members span experience from classical to rock music via jazz. The pieces included here encompass work by a number of writers whose sensibilities range from formal composition to more improvised fare. Underlying the music is the pandemic and the way it prevented musicians from the usual way of working together and playing in public.

The most jazz-orientated piece is Misha Mullov-Abbado’s ‘Effra Parade’, which has elements of traditional jazz street music interwoven with more contemporary sounds. Despite his jazz background, Mark Nightingale’s ‘Arriba’ sounds like a piece for classical players pretending to play something jazzy. And most of the other pieces really sound like a wind ensemble flirting with jazz. But that’s the point. This is not a jazz ensemble, but a dazzlingly versatile chamber group that includes some jazz-orientated material.

Everything is played perfectly, not a note out of place, with tone and finger control at exemplary levels. But the ‘wild ecstatic solos’ in Dan Jenkins’ ‘Bach in Barbados’ sound scored, and Andy Panayi’s impressive suite 'Pandemic 19-20' has the flavour of third stream music which is brilliantly written, but in which the orchestral texture is more significant than the solos, even in the third movement ‘The Traveller Goes Forth’ that has a few bars’ space for solos, or the following ‘Lockdown Release’ where solos slide from apparent improvisation to scored parts.

So for excellently played chamber music with an element of jazz sensibility this is a fine album, but a jazz album it is not.