Led off by a hint of an arpeggio and then the voice of Joanna Eden - a past teacher of Sam Smith - 'After You' is a words-and-music Ross Lorraine song, a piece that has an Anthony Newley resonance to the melody quite a bit, first thoughts… yes: it shares something of a simpatico focus and mood. The sort of song a step or two away from the feel even of 'Imagination'. But what do the words say? Well, they are real. There is no twee happy ending implied, but no tragedy invoked either. There will be no brand new start ''after you.''

A touch over five minutes long it, drawn from More From the Heart out later in the summer. The ''more'' and ''heart'' figuratively we see that plentitude as heart in a sense of the heart of a lyricist - but more exactly the naming riffs on earlier Lorraine release Heart of Mine released a couple of years ago. It featured most of the main UK top jazz singers who included Claire Martin, Gwyneth Herbert, Ian Shaw and Liane Carroll on what was a Claire Martin produced affair. That release revelled in a strong jazz centrality to it, particularly on the swinging Claire feature 'The Name of the Game.'

At ease with 'Summer Breeze' on Love Quiet: Joanna Eden - in Ronnie's (pictured with Guillermo Hill). Joanna features on 'After You.'

Eden, new to the Lorraine sphere, impressed us live last year one evening upstairs in Ronnie's and also on her contemporaneous release, Love Quiet.

The Lincolnshire born singer's own sound suits the Lorrainian ambience more than well. Martin produces again and more broadly album vocalists also include this time around the great Irish singer Christine Tobin and room too made for bluesy keyboardist-singer Charlie Wood who runs Perdido Records and is married to the much admired English jazz singer, Jacqui Dankworth.

''I was delighted,'' says Lorraine, ''to get to know the singing of Joanna Eden, with her amazing vocal technique and emotional honesty, who perfectly realised the two songs that probably mean the most to me on a personal level, 'After You' and 'Down On My Knees.'''

Lorraine within the last decade has worked with singer Melissa James on 'Live Again'

Born in Bristol in 1955 he is a Cambridge and King's College, London graduate - his PhD was supervised by the great English contemporary classical composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022) whose work Lorraine also edited for the Viennese international music publisher Universal Edition. Lorraine has also worked with the singer Melissa James. We liked their work together in 2016 co-writing ‘Live Again’ particularly for its gospelly-blues jazz feel and Melissa's René Marie-calibre voice.