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Perhaps more than any other popular music, jazz allows â€" even expects â€" new talents to reproduce the stylistic innovations of past decades. Rock, funk and hip hop all make appearances from time to time â€" but the young jazz musician usually returns to the straightforward acoustic style of past generations. Matthew Halsall is a trumpeter from Manchester who has drunk deeply from that well of inspiration.
His previous two albums, Sending My Love and Colour Yes, both owed a considerable debt to the modal, spiritual jazz of Alice and John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and others. That shouldn’t come...

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