For this HighNote release, featuring a razor-sharp quintet with saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Charles Altura, Tom Harrell & company combine complex compositions, seductive rhythms, advanced harmonic concepts, vibrant solos and sheer inspiration in an album which transcends the jazz idiom.

This is perhaps Harrell's most imaginative recording to-date, with the scoring for the piano-less, tenor sax and guitar front line ensemble sui generis among his work.

When pianist Bill Charlap featured Tom Harrell at a recent gig with his trio at New York's Jazz Standard, he summarised the trumpeter's genius as concisely as anyone could. "It is our honor and privilege," he announced, "To share the bandstand with a man who is a living, breathing melody."

Personnel: Tom Harrell (trumpet, flugelhorn), Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Charles Altura (electric & acoustic guitars), Ben Street (bass), Johnathan Blake (drums), Adam Cruz (percussion - track 3).

1. The Fast
2. Dublin
3. Hope
4. Coronation
5. Folk Song
6. Blue
7. Ground
8. The Isle
9. Duet
10. Taurus