If you enjoyed Welcome to My World singer Joyce Elaine Yuille’s excellent recent album on which the singer was joined by the band of tenor saxophonist Timo Lassy, you might well be interested to know that the Finnish saxist has his own record stacked up for an imminent release.

Titled Love Bullet, issued by the well distributed German label Membran, it’s very retro soul and hard bop-flavoured vintage jazz in essence, Lassy – as cultured a player as Brandon Allen, so if you’re even casually familiar with the Ronnie’s Late Late Show player you’ll know you’ve landed on a musical approach worth waking up to.

Lassy is in his late-thirties and made his name in Finland in the cult Five Corners Quintet. Around a bit, his sideman credits include stints with vogueish Italian producer-guitarist Nicola Conte and the cool Minneapolis jazz singer José James. The tenorist has already released some four albums under his own steam.

Playing at the Brecon Jazz Festival in Wales this summer, on Love Bullet Lassy is joined among the band in the front line by trumpeter Jukka Eskola and on the kit one of Europe’s finest jazz drummers of his generation Teddy Rok 7 main man the Blakeyfied Teppo Mäkynen. Watch a snippet introducing Love Bullet, above