This gets more interesting when you begin to hear Theo Croker's trumpet and then Croker and the leader here French saxophonist Emile Parisien play together in a dirge-like lope leaving it to drummer Nasheet Waits to alter the mood moving the atmosphere into more of a slow-ish swinger.

Croker's solo is a lucid statement neatly offset by guitarist Manu Codjia and when Codija himself solos there is a new brightness that lifts the level of engagement with it again, the sound well-amplified and clear as crystal.

The Louise line-up is completed by bassist Joe Martin and pianist Roberto Negro and was recorded at a studio in the French city of Amiens in June and features originals plus a cover of Joe Zawinul's 'Madagascar' – a piece that was included on Weather Report's 1980 Columbia album Night Passage.