Jeremy Strachan plainly doesn’t give a damn about your jazz purism. Think overdubbing is cheating? Say you can’t name a tune with a scorching Latin groove after an old-time banjo-playing icon (“Dock Boggs”), especially when there’s no banjo in earshot? Who’s going to stop him? Strachan’s riffs and clever arrangements here recall the slinky charts of Far East Suite–era Duke Ellington. As a soloist, at times Strachan and trumpeter Nicolas Buligan approach an Ornette Coleman/Don Cherry kind of rapport; at others, they meander, and some of the soloing lags disappointingly behind the sophistication of the songs themselves. But for the most part, Potential Things is a welcome salvo in the fight against jazz’s stultification, and a promising record in its own right.