Vinyl continued its comeback in 2016, achieving its best sales in a quarter of a century. What's more, the biggest seller was in significant part the work of a jazz group: Blackstar featuring the likes of Donny McCaslin and Ben Monder. Of course, it probably didn't put more generalist buyers off that the name above the line on that particular disc was David Bowie (RIP). Still, jazz can be confident of a healthy if modest future on vinyl if all releases are as strong as the latest from Jazz on Film Records, Jazz in Italian Cinema, which is the single-180gm disc follow-up to the acclaimed Jazz in Polish Cinema CD box set. Wisely eschewing the better-known material from the later 1960s and 1970s, the collection takes as its focus, as the subtitle has it: Spreading New Sounds from the Big Screen 1958-62. The watershed work was Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti (1958), the soundtrack for which was composed by Piero Umiliani in the immediate wake of Miles Davis's L'Ascenseur pour l’échaffaud, made just across the border in France. The sudden jazz flourishing in Italian cinema drew in US big-hitters such as Chet Baker and John Lewis of the MJQ, who contributed alongside the native ‘Big 3’: Umiliani, Piero Piccioni and Armando Trovajoli. It's a great, musically exciting story, expertly produced and curated by Jazzwise's own Selwyn Harris.