Martin Hummel and Ubuntu have been and gone and done it again. One doesn’t want to over-praise so young a band on their debut, but Ubuntu continue to build a strong roster of artists who indeed are the new bands of tomorrow. The thumping, sometimes literally, heart of Tomorrow’s New Quartet is Oughton’s articulate drums and his fresh and varied compositions. The vibe couldn’t have been more joyously set up than with the opening ‘Altogether Now’. Deschanel’s ebullient piano romps all over the jaunt of Moore’s walking bass on this post bop jolly. As befits a drummer’s band, the recording of the kit is excellent, giving it an almost multi-instrumental feel which comes to the fore in Oughton’s break on ‘Jemstones’. Kaye’s sax sings and swings on the same song, but who wouldn’t feel liberated against Moore’s rock-solid time keeping. She in turn is freed up on ‘Waltz for Last Year’, played with no little passion and vigour, and again Kaye challenges without ever over blowing. And a special big up must go to Deschanel who wears his virtuosity with the lightest of touches. Oughton is Amsterdam- based and there’s something of classic Dutch football in this band: a ferocious focus on local detail but also a sense of wider spaces with room for individual expression as well. A quartet for today as well as tomorrow.