Classical composers have written jazz-inflected pieces (Stravinsky, Milhaud and Copland among them) and often ended up sounding like teachers trying to corral an unruly child. Jazz composers have written for classical ensembles, with the classical part frequently sounding like jazz hooks just moved to different instruments. Mark-Anthony Turnage's Scorched is something else.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Stefan Asbury, with jazz guitarist John Scofield, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Peter Erskine, triumphantly ripped through this 80-minute multi-concerto. It was the second half of a remarkable concert that also featured saxist Joe Lovano improvising poetically on a low-key Turnage rumination on Vaughan Williams.

Scorched, which premiered in 2002, is an intense, viscerally thrilling and devilishly intricate orchestral score that reflects jazz phrasing and rhythms without a second's pastiche. Several of its melodies are Scofield tunes expanded, reharmonised and conversed with. Only once did the dialogue seem to jar - on the jazz trio's abrupt first entry with an in-your-face funk beat after the opening section's dark percussion rumbles, hurtling cross-rhythms, and dazzling high brass chatter. But when the orchestra came back with those slewing, zigzagging melodies after a fast-moving jam between Scofield, Erskine and Patitucci, the coalition snapped into place and stayed there.

Turnage had violins, violas and cellos engage in scurrying melody-chases, warmed wistful flute themes with muted trombones, hinted at Gil Evans, and absorbed Scofield's own rhythms and accents. The bursting trumpet fireworks and headlong jazz-trio charge at the finale sounded like a straight-orchestra equivalent of Scofield and Miles Davis' You're Under Arrest that actually caught the street feel. You had to catch your breath when they hit the last slamming chord.

· Scorched is broadcast on Radio 3 on February 22.