Heading up the E-Collective Breathless is the new album from jazz trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard, a quintet affair to be released in late-May.

The title refers to “I can’t breathe,” the words of Eric Garner adopted by the pro-racial equality anti-police brutality protest movement in the States.

Breathless includes originals of the Grammy-winning New Orleansian’s and treatments of compositions by Les McCann/Eddie Harris, Hank Williams (‘I Ain’t Got Nothing But Time’), and Coldplay (‘Midnight’ featured on Ghost Stories Live 2014).

Blanchard’s E-collective finds the trumpeter heading up his largely new band of guitarist Charles Altura, pianist/keyboardist Fabian Almazan (the only survivor from 2013’s Magnetic and who also contributes some material), bass guitarist Donald Ramsey and Chicagoan drummer Oscar Seaton with guest PJ Morton of Maroon 5 singing on McCann and Harris’ ‘Compared to What’ and ‘Shutting Down’ written by Blanchard’s son JRei Oliver who also features on the album as does Dr Cornel West a previous collaborator of Blanchard’s. Breathless (Blue Note) arrives two years on from Magnetic.