Having heard great things about this young quintet, recently snapped up by Courtney Pine's Destin-E Records, I found them less storming and more balladic than expected. Raw creativity is their shtick, but there's also a latent artistry, particularly from drummer Shaney Forbes and his boyhood buddy Nathaniel Facey on alto. These two already work extensively with other groups, and it shows.

Front-man, Canadianborn trumpeter Jay Phelps, may become the brightest star, but his solos do not yet build to obvious climaxes, whereas Facey's Ornette Coleman-inspired streams of sound are on tap whenever he needs them. And because most of the players are still studying - Forbes and Phelps at Trinity, pianist Kit Downes at the Royal Academy, where Facey graduated - the music has an extra air of experimentation.

Facey's composition The Deep, inspired by an oceanography episode of Planet Earth - "David Attenborough, man, check him out" - lived up to its title with three movements, including a fast 6/8 theme and a complex vocal rhythmic riff ("ga-go, go-go-ga") beneath a declamatory alto solo that was the highlight of the set. New bassist Tom Farmer sparkled on Downes's ballad Dark Lady, which surged dramatically from Bill Evans rubato to a hyperfast 4/4. Look out for their eponymous debut album, due in July.