There is something very symmetrical and precise about Silent Storm, this new quartet album from guitarist Kristian Borring, most recently encountered last summer playing duos with pianist Bruno Heinen.

Here he is with pianist Arthur Lea, bassist Mick Coady and drummer Jon Scott, in a gutsy modern mainstream setting that was recorded in a Sussex studio in late-2015.

There’s a strong rhythmic urgency and rugged shape to the opening tunes especially, the album becoming a little more introverted as it develops, driven by Scott with Coady as a kind of perennial navigator leaving solo runs to either Lea or Borring. Here too you’ll find a lot of discipline and a compelling drive to the playing, Borring burrowing deep into John Scofield-like territory. The tunes all have an integrity to them and a slight sense of bittersweet melancholia creeps in on the gentler material particularly the delicate delightful strains of ‘Islington Twilight.’ SG

Live dates coming up include The Spotted Dog, Birmingham on 23 August and Pizza Express Jazz Club, London on 30 August