Looking ahead again today to another early-2024 British jazz release and the return of the QOW Trio three years on from their self titled debut and which teams legendary Tubby Hayes drummer Spike Wells with two much younger players - bebop loving saxist Riley Stone-Lonergan and equally classic modern-jazz rooted bassist Eddie Myer who has also had a career as an indie rocker with Turin Brakes.

A band steeped in 1950s Sonny Rollins, tunes include Stone-Lonergan originals plus pieces by Ellington and Strayhorn, Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk and Big John Patton recording in a London studio after an Irish tour. Close your eyes and imagine you are in a New York loft sometime in the 1950s - it's all part of the spell all delivered with bags full of energy and without a pianist in sight.

Out on 26 January. QOW trio, l-r: Spike Wells, Riley Stone-Lonergan, Eddie Myer photo: Lisa Wormsley. Opening tracks 'High Noon' and title track 'The Hold Up' are streaming