What better to follow bold student visions than challenging student improvisation from three groups, one from each year currently studying under Professor Tommy Smith at the Royal Conservatoire?

Having headlined the previous evening at Edinburgh's Jazz Bar, the seniors performed first. A quartet led by bassist Brodie Jarvie, with the similarly familiar John Lowrie on drums and a twin sax front line of Andy Baker and Mikey Butcher, they shared the writing credits around, but were at their best on Donny McCaslin's Festival in 3 Parts, a rare up-tempo tune in an evening rather too devoted to ballads. Where they showed their experience was in the structure of their soloing, with Baker in particular playing with much more assurance since last I heard him.