One to savour, Monty Alexander fans. Scratch that: one to savour whoever you are as a jazz listener. Guitarist Yotam Silberstein has played with the great Jamaican-American pianist and bandleader over the years and he is here with a fine band of his own with his name on the spine and the charts.

The drummer is Greg Hutchinson, one of Betty Carter’s drummers way back who you may have heard play with Soweto Kinch or in Aussie Diana Krall stylist Sarah McKenzie’s touring band when it docked in London. 

The pianist Aaron Goldberg – click for some ace Goldberg – and the bassist of the quartet in a continuing thread is Aaron’s trio mate Reuben Rogers who is also famed for his tenure in Charles Lloyd’s New Quartet. Rogers is included in this list of bass greats if you like a bit of a guide to the sort of league he is in.

Yotam is a mellow cat stylistically, the heart sings, and everything flows. 

Click to listen, top, to music from The Village  on a track that slides into view via an oblique only ever tangentially allusive metrical nod towards the swooping trajectory of ‘Jitterbug Waltz’ in a different time signature before diverting into its own expression-laden cycling romantic dance of a space, like a Chick Corea waltz, providing exploratory room for plenty of changes and narrative fireside improvisation, light latinate touches unfolding into a yearningly absorbing romanticism. 

The album is released by the French Jazz&People label in early-December.

Yotam explains more, above