Dahveed Behroozi

★★★★ Echos SUNNYSIDE. CD/DL

There’s a palpable tension to Behroozi’s dark and brooding first studio outing, as serpentine bassist Thomas Morgan and resourceful drummer Billy Mintz interpret the Californian’s Steinway sketches on the fly: epitomised by two wildly contrasting takes on Chimes, TDB’s spare melancholy or Royal Star’s slowly enveloping lament. A melting amalgam of Keith Jarrett, Vijay Iyer and Maurizio Pollini, where abstractions change with the wind.