Here's a frontline to savour, with edgesome youth and deep jazz experience, two musicians with a sense of the out-there while remaining grounded in making music accessible and, shh, whisper it gently, fun. O'Higgins and Luft offer no deferential forelock tugging as they dig deep into the music of two jazz grandmasters. They own the material even as they pay due reverence. Interestingly, especially with the Coltrane material, the pair have chosen songs outside the obvious catalogue. There's a gorgeous ‘I'll Wait and Pray’, even slower than Coltrane's pace, with a rich tonality from O'Higgins, but it's the straightahead playing of Luft (via Lage and Kessel) that will have mentor Phil Robson purring. It's the stripped down nature of the sound that grabs you, giving both intimacy and space, even to much recorded warhorses like ‘Naima’. There's an easeful grace in flying through the fun themes of ‘Trinkle-Trinkle’, but the band never go for the quirky over the soulful, so even as we grin we wonder at Monk's invention. Throughout it all Youngs is restraint itself, while Flanigan brings a sound rarely associated with the inspirations for this release. Both get their own sure slots on ‘Spring is Here’. ‘Dreamland’ indeed.