A belated follow-up to bass clarinettist Thomas Savy’s earlier album Archipel with the same line-up released by the Nocturne label eight years ago it’s an immersive listen with the emphasis firmly on highly structured broadly thematic compositions with an ultimately sunny disposition that allow the players to stretch out. With guitarist Michael Felberbaum, who takes a peach of a solo on the third track ‘Archipel Bleu’, pianist/Rhodes player Pierre de Bethmann the first input we hear at the beginning of the brooding ‘No Time, No Time’, bassist Stéphane Kerecki, and drummer Karl Jannuska there’s plenty going on here with lively tempi, strong interpretative resource on Savy’s part (roughly in the Klaus Gesing domain) on a selection of compositions that include Savy’s own tunes, work by members of the band and Thelonious Monk’s ‘Misterioso’ thrown in for good measure. Considered chamber jazz thoughtfully delivered Savy’s a name worth getting to know. Out now