Saxophonist Christian Brewer is relatively unknown in the UK, possibly due to his career as a festival favourite in Spain. For his first ever gig in Sheffield, he arrived with two members of Soweto Kinch's band (bassist Larry Bartley and drummer Troy Miller), along with promising young pianist Leon Greening.

Brewer specialises in reproducing the sound and feel of 1960s Riverside artists such as Jimmy Heath and Cannonball Adderley. Modal ensemble writing provided the launch pad for a series of cascading solos, and a Latin sensibility subtly flavoured the mix. The quartet began with a Brewer tune called Singapore, which eased into life with a slow-burning saxophone reverie. As sunny modulations flitted by, Brewer gently stepped on the gas, coiling his phrases with taut precision.

A faster Latin number called Thanks But No Thanks followed. Miller and Greening suddenly came into their own, sounding uncannily like Milestones-era Philly Jones and Red Garland in break-neck mode. The sense of being taken on a ride through chronological jazz history intensified during the tune Seesaw, during which the pianist and drummer morphed into a Coltrane-like rhythm section.

Brewer himself never missed a trick, his playing crackling with pyrotechnics. Yet on down-tempo material such as Harry Woods's Try A Little Tenderness, he showed himself capable of dynamic subtlety and pleasing understatement. With conservative stylistic parameters and an emphasis on straight virtuosity over atmosphere and mood, Brewer's quartet occasionally lack depth. But it isn't hard to see why they go down so well at those sunny Spanish festivals.