Internationally revered guitarist John McLaughlin has heaped praise on Edinburgh-born saxophonist Tommy Smith’s latest album. Recorded in concert in the Queen’s Hall last month, Eternal Light features Smith in a duo with pianist Gwilym Simcock. The pair hadn’t intended to make an album at the time but when they listened to a private recording of the concert they decided they should make it available to the public.

Midlothian-based saxophonist Phil Bancroft releases the first album by his Standards Trio, No Need For Silence, on his Myriad Streams platform on Friday 24 October. A celebration of music from the Black American jazz tradition, the album reflects the inspiration Bancroft felt setting out as a teenaged musician on hearing his primary influences, saxophonists John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Wayne Shorter.