Tim Garland’s Weather Walker Trio

Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Saxophonist Tim Garland’ s current album, Weather Walker, is a sumptuously orchestrated and airily spatial evocation of the Lake District. Few jazz musicians, however, can stretch to touring with a 35-piece string orchestra in tow, but here he was in the peer less company of his Weather Walker Trio, pianist Jason Rebel lo, a longstanding collab ora - tor, and double-b assist Yuri Goloubev, who also plays on the album.

In fact they only played two numbers from Weather Walker, the reedy voice of Garland’s soprano sax calling out the stately theme of the title track, with classical echoes from

Reb ello’s flowing accompaniment. Garl and switched to his tenor instrument for The Snows, based on a traditional song, the lovely melo - dy emerging from sonorous chorus effects, with piano and bass steadily working up a head of steam.

Elsewhere there was a bust ling, warm-hearted treatment of Kenny Wheeler’ s Everybody’ s Song But My Own, Rebello and Goloubev taking it away with zest, while Garland’s The Eternal Greeting saw sax and piano in correspondingly eloquent colloquy.

They were joined by another auld acquaintance, awardwinning poet and guitarist Don Pat er son, with whom Garland played in the Celtic jazz-fusion band Lammas and whose Waltz for Rosa received an easeful spin, before Paterson read his poem Death – a wry, deadpan confrontation with an itinerant and Armani-suited Grim Reaper – over bass and plucked piano strings, soprano sax providing querulous interjections.

In contrast, Garland’s Samai for Peace, based on Middle Eastern rhythms, sizzled and birled with sheer life.