Tributes, written for the excellent Danish Radio Big Band under its prizewinning young composer/conductor Miho Hazama, is just as kaleidoscopically eventful as [past] releases, but Neset now shares the improvising with this band’s fine soloists - and working again with an all-jazz lineup, and an autobiographical chronicling of his return to his native Norway after 17 years in Copenhagen, seems to have brought a more playfully laid-back ease to his handling of complex large-scale materials.

The two-part “Bicycle Town” begins with Neset’s unaccompanied tenor emulating a bike with a catchy rhythmic pattern for the first two minutes. The other instrumentalists gradually join in, summoning a pretty wild ride that includes a fine trombone solo from Peter Dahlgren and, through its joyfully dense interplay, builds to a furious level.