With a release date of 10 November Pocket Compass (Basho Records) is the latest album from Trish Clowes, the saxophonist-composer who earlier this year curated the latest running of her cross-genre collaborative festival Emulsion.

As a BBC New Generation artist, a BBC scheme that champions mainly elite classical artists by enabling broadcast exposure and concerts, Clowes follows in the footsteps of Shabaka Hutchings and Gwilym Simcock, the release of Pocket Compass marking the drawing to a close of the saxophonist’s time as a New Generation artist. Pocket Compass features the BBC Concert Orchestra, with whom Shabaka Hutchings also collaborated as part of the New Generation scheme, and draws orchestrated and improvised elements into a close circle.

Strongly inspired by Wayne Shorter, who Clowes went to meet in America and with whom the Concert Orchestra performed at the 2013 London Jazz Festival, one of the pieces on this new album is ‘Wayne's Waltz’, her time on the West Coast also inspiring the piece ‘Pfeiffer and the Whales.’

Clowes’ Tangent quintet, featuring Gwilym Simcock, is also included on Pocket Compass, which will be launched by an orchestral concert at the London Jazz Festival.