Making their recording debut and inspired by the poetry of Robert Burns, Edinburgh-born trumpeter Sean Gibbs conducts the Birmingham Jazz Orchestra on Burns performing a set of the recent Birmingham Conservatoire graduate’s own compositions organised in Burnsian chunks: ‘Tam O’Shanter’, above, ‘Love in the Guise of Friendship’, ‘Nature’s Law’, ‘To a Mountain Daisy’ and ‘Address to the Toothache.’

Bustling swinging fairly mainstream sounds, along the lines of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra style, soloists include guitarist Ben Lee, tenor saxophonist Lluis Mather, trombonist Richard Foote and alto saxophonist Elliot Drew.

Recorded in Birmingham’s Adrian Boult Hall over a couple of days of April this year Burns is released on 11 August and before then the Birmingham Jazz Orchestra play The Ent Shed in Bedford on 6 August.