Playing guitar and guitar synthesizer in 1981 with Lyle Mays on keyboards,Steve Rodby, bass, Nana Vasconcelos on percussion and berimbau, Dan Gottlieb drumming.

With Lyle Mays, Mark Egan and Dan Gottlieb, in 1978.

With Lyle Mays and Nana Vasconcelos.

His debut, from 1976; emerging from the tutelage of Gary Burton. Lovely, out-in-the-wide-open Americana Jazz, with dazzlingly lithe bass-playing by Jaco Pastorius. Bob Moses nails it, too. It’s never sounded better than in this iteration as part of the Luminessence Series. Hang about for the Ornette cover, wrapping things up.

Rainer Bruninghaus, keyboards; Eberhard Weber, bass; Manu Katche drums; Marilyn Mazur percussion; Agnes Buen Garnas, vocal; Mari Boine, vocal.

With Miroslav Vitous and Pete Erskine.

With Chick Corea, piano; John McLaughlin, guitar; Miroslav Vitous, double-bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums.

The Weather Report bassist brilliantly driving a core group including a bandoneon, three saxes, two drummers and Randy Brecker through and around swells of orchestra and choir. Ambitious and original.

John Surman, bass clarinet and soprano saxophone; Dave Holland, double-bass.

With Barbaros Erkose, clarinet; Lassad Hosni, bendir, darbouka.

Crafted, swinging, soulful Middle Eastern jazz, led by oud and bass clarinet. Dedicated to the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. (Why he didn’t win the Nobel Prize isn’t a mystery.)

Ravishing, chilled interplay between oud, piano and accordion.

The last recording by the late Canadian trumpeter — such a mainstay of contemporary UK jazz — stamped with his trademark melancholy… lyrical, sly, sinuous. ‘As a graceful coda to a wonderful career, not to be missed by anyone who ever fell under Kenny’s spell, however belatedly’ (Richard Williams).

With celebrated socialist protest singer Maria Farantouri, and CL’s quartet featuring Jason Moran augmented by a lyra player and second pianist: Theodorakis, traditional Greek music, Eleni Karaindrou, Dream Weaver…

Dramatic, intricate singing from South West Ethiopia — non-verbal, the voice turned inside out, used like an instrument — sometimes with lyre, riffing till death do us part, clapping, flutes from space, bells, and other accompaniments.