A fixture in big bands, the founder of the London Jazz Orchestra, a member of Troyk-estra and the reformed Loose Tubes as well as a top rock and pop session player, trumpeter Noel Langley debuts with Edentide later this month. Playing besides trumpet and flugelhorn piccolo trumpet and mellophone, Langley is joined by harpist Ruth Wall, who immediately makes her presence felt among the blaze of sound on opening track ‘For the Uncommon Man’, a piece Langley wrote when he was a teenager now presented as a fanfare. Pianist Alcyona Mick, percussionist Keith Fairburn, bassist Zoltan Dekany, drummer Asaf Sirkis and organist Kenny Dickenson also appear on this sophisticated spatial album, and bass guitarist Laurence Cottle guests on third track ‘Sven’s Island’ while the 10-piece Stealth Horns appear on three tracks.

The material includes Graham Fitkin’s ‘Glass’ orchestrated for the Stealth Horns, who include players from the Swing Out Sister big band and the Radiohead horn section Langley assembled for the King of Limbs Live From the Basement sessions. Kenny Wheeler’s ‘Four For One’ is the second movement of a trumpet quartet, and Langley plays all four parts. Langley has explained that after London Jazz Orchestra pianist Pete Saberton’s sudden death in 2012 he realised he must seize the day and record his own album, and the result, out on Suntara Records, is released on 30 June.

Noel Langley, top. Portions of tracks from Edentide can be listened to above