Dance label Woodland records has just sued an EP of enlace of three tracks, with an LP imminent The disc followed two quintet albums, hunk in the Deep Freeze (leek) and Simply Blue (2000), both recorded with an earlier version of his acoustic group. Corbenova hailed as change of direction, but Bryan seas no discontinuity.

I didn't see it as a change: the trumpeter insisted, 'I saw it as something extra added on. The first disc was really a live demo to help me get work, and it done quite well for me. The second was recorded live at Ealing Jazz Festival and we have a new one from the One Eleven Club in Sheffield, which is also the first release on their label. That is with my quartet, and that is pretty much what I do live.

'The Corbenova protect was really aimed at bringing both jazz and my music to a younger audience, and it has done that for me. It got me radio play and a higher profile, and I enjoyed working with a different group of people using the computer set-up. It is something I can do now at home - if I don’t feel like picking up my trumpet, I can still be creative with the computer.’

The quartet featured on Live at The One Eleven Club features Levi French on piano, Ben Markland on bass and Neil Bullock on drums. They play extended workouts on Corbett's own Simply Blue', Freddie Hubbard's Little Sunflower, Stanley Turrentine's Sugar and Victor Young's Beautiful Love'.

'I put the quartet together at the stall of last year. The quintet had pretty much run its course by then, and was getting a little bit stale. These guys play together a lot anyway, and are good friends of mine, so it came together pretty easy. They are all very creative and don't need to have everything tightly arranged and set down for them. You can give them an idea and they will make something happen.

'Levi French is very much on the same wavelength as me when it comes to melody and music language. We understand each other's approach, and he has the Fender Rhodes as well when we need that funkier sound. I have a huge respect for all three of them, and I think you can hear on the CD that we are really a band. I was getting bookings for some bigger festival stages, and I wanted a band that could stand up there on any stage and do us Justice. That was my aim, and I think that was what I got.

Bryan began playing trumpet when his father, musician Stuart Corbett, brought him one at the age of six. He is classically trained, and came through various youth orchestras and wind bands, but his teenage aspirations did not lie in music.

‘All through my teens I wanted to be a professional sportsman,' he admitted, still sounding a little rueful even now.' Cricket and football were all i had my eyes on. After university the fact of having to find a proper job raised its head, and I drifted into music. I had done all my grades and diplomas and so forth, but there was always a bit of jazz in there from my dad, and that was really the fun side of music for me.'

He moved to Birmingham six or seven years ago', where he worked in an instrument shop and began gigging locally. There, are some great players here, and at that lime there were good venues as well I had a residency at Ronnie Scotts, when it was here, and there was a great venue called Ty’s Jazz & Spice, but there was no support for it and it closed in July, There was enough to keep me here at that time, but at the moment I'd have to say if anything It is now going the other way.

There is currently only really what Tony Dudley-Evans at Birmingham Jazz Is doing. I used to earn £50 quid gigs around the city, but they are just not here any more. There is still plenty of talent, but the venues have disappeared' Does this mean a change of location is likely, I wondered? 'It's always in the back of my mind,' he laughed, 'don't ask me where!’

One striking aspect of Corbett's playing is his rich trumpet sound, and that was something he wanted to keep intact in Corbenova, rather than going down the route of heavy electronic manipulation In the manner of Nils Petter Molbvaer’s recent work.

'I love what Nils Petter does, but I wanted something different I take great pride in my trumpet sound, and I warned to preserve it. Maybe I will move into electronics in a future project, but at this stage it was down to getting my sound across in a natural way in that musical context.

The crossover approach of Miles, and Freddie Hubbard has been a big influence in the material I am doing now. It’s putting more modern beats behind it most of the drum samples on the disc, other than a drum machine, and I think really feel that difference.