A senior figure on the scene whose output shows no sign of letting up as he enters his eighth decade. As well as groups alongside his established peers, he increasingly provides great experience and opportunity for his younger colleagues.

Paul Dunmall and Discus Music are clearly on a roll together as the veteran composer and improviser delivers his sixth album in two years to the label. And what is especially interesting is how each of them sits well outside Paul's free blowing music, concentrating instead on compositions for small and medium groups of great players, many of them Birmingham based.

Away With Troubles And Anxieties! is performed by mainly the same line up which delivered 2024's Red Hot Ice, but this time with Paul's writing more sharply honed, and with producers Archer and Mwamba given free rein to shape the pieces - which were played with maximum spontaneity in the studio and are mainly first takes - into the carefully structured and suite heard on the finished release.

This medium size group is absolute dynamite, and we cut them while they were hot!