The Erik Truffaz Quartet
El tiempo de la Revolución
Blue Note ****
A highly impressive return to form, this, by French Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz. Bristling with club friendly, modal, and electronically processed sounds reminiscent of Mark Isham’s 1990s purple patch, Truffaz’s quartet has produced an evocative mood piece that joins the dots between the reimagined-1950s in his head and the “successive revolutions through which our lives are chronicled”, as the unsigned note on the sleeve has it. Intelligent dance music through a jazz filter as ever with Truffaz, but this has more edge than his last few albums, and Anna Aaron’s Nico-via-Beth Gibbons vocal touches are a definite plus. Stephen Graham
The Truffaz quartet play Ronnie Scott’s, London on Monday www.ronniescotts.co.uk