" data-original-title="" title="">Brian Martin, who as a working musician wears many hats—trombonist, composer, arranger, educator and band leader among them—has taken those hats from his native Iowa and given them a new mailing address in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. Which is a big deal. Big enough, at least, for Martin to have devoted much of Old Home/New Home, the Brian Martin Big Band's debut recording, to the ins and outs and ups and downs of leaving one's friendly confines to plant new roots, seek new adventures and face new challenges in a corner of the world that, while not entirely unknown to him, is nonetheless relatively unfamiliar and daunting.

For half a dozen years, starting in 2018, Martin led his mostly Iowa-stocked band through its paces in Des Moines. After relocating, he set about forming a new Boston-based ensemble to perform his typically luminous and pleasing compositions and arrangements. To lend him a hand, three of his fellow Iowans—lead trumpeter