Band leader Tim Garland's 11-piece ensemble is one of the strongest of those following the vogue for medium-sized bands making big sounds.

Fronting his Dean Street Underground Orchestra, his compositional skills made full use of a wide range of instrumental colours.

Round Midnight began with a stunning effect, with Garland's tenor reverberating into the body of the grand piano, producing waves of lush, ambient chords worthy of a cathedral acoustic.

Billy Taylor's I Wish I Knew (How It Felt To Be Free), better known as the theme from the BBC's Film 2003, came into its own as a funky vehicle for alto-sax, plus the exuberant trombone of Barnaby Dickinson.

The playing of US guests Geoff Keezer and Jeff Ballard was remarkable throughout. Keezer's piano solo buildt tension with virtuosic percussive techniques.

The second set belonged to Garland's recreation of Kenny Wheeler's Windmill Tilter Suite, featuring the venerable composer and flugelhorn soloist, who in both capacities produced the most profound sounds in modern jazz.

From the first chords of Don The Dream to the closing Don No More was rich and thrilling, with bravura unison passages for flugelhorn, tenor sax and the guitar of John Parricelli.