Trumpeter Adam O’Farrill—a third-generation musician, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY—wades into new territory with his quartet ELEPHANT and their self-titled album. While the accomplished artist—only 31 years old—has helmed other four-piece ensembles, this marks O’Farrill’s first as the solo horn of the group, which includes Yvonne Rogers on piano, Walter Stinson on bass, and Russell Holzman on drums. Eight original O’Farrill compositions fortify the album, but he ends the set with a rearrangement of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Bibo No Aozora,” replacing Sakamoto’s piano motifs with those for a trumpet. (And it’s not O’Farrill’s first dive into the Japanese composer’s work; he opened his 2021 full-length Visions of Your Other with “stakra” from Sakamoto’s 2017 async.) Anchored by the three-track “Sea Triptych”—“Along the Malecon,” “The Three of Us, Floating,” “Iris Murdoch”—ELEPHANT deftly sways between the jaunty and staccato (“Curves and Convolutions”) and the energetic (“Eleanor’s Dance”) and haunting (“Thank You Song”).