There was a contented whiff of the corporate in the air when the Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren and German trumpeter Till Bronner shared a showcase gig for London's International Live Music Conference. The venue was packed with the music biz, and the choice of the coolly skilful Landgren and Bronner for this show was less a matter of aesthetics and more an indication of how much product they shift. Landgren has been selling jazz-funk albums by the truckload in Germany and Sweden for over a decade; Bronner, a trumpeter/crooner with Chet Baker leanings, is building a global reputation.

A generation divides Landgren and Bronner but they're similar as inventive and immaculately assured brass improvisers. And both sing well enough to haul their careers beyond the deprivations of the jazz economy.

Bronner applied his warm tone and plummy sound to some relaxed blues, a light, rhythmically supple, Chet Bakerish vocal; Henry Mancini's Charade; a pristine and softly dramatic trumpet account of Danny Boy; a little Ray Charlesian soul and his ambient-infused new title track Oceana. Guitarist Johan Leijonhufvud was as faultlessly resourceful as Bronner, and sometimes melodically more so.

Landgren then arrived to cannily follow an impassively intoned soul-blues vocal opener with a long circular-breathing trombone warble that made the networking punters whoop. Landgren's voice sounded fine, tucked into the groove of I Can't Get Enough of Your Love but underpowered on the imploring soul breakouts. He whipped emphatically into the notes of his trombone break, however, and played tumbling double-time without losing his rich tone. He also briefly applied his gifts to a more abstract, trip-hoppy feature written by drummer Wolfgang Haffner. Plenty of fomulae on this show, but in the end music got a narrow win out of it.