With Cannonball Adderley, Duke Jordan and co.
Kicking off with Tribute To Brownie; and extending his tradition of hard bop trumpet-playing.

With the Turrentines. ‘Classic Vinyl Series.’

With Lynn Taitt And The Jets at Federal in 1968. From Dubstore, Tokyo; now on vinyl.

Featuring Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes, from 1958.

All the stuff he did for Smash.

Playful, melodic, tropical pop, up-to-the-minute but with roots in seventies Brazilian music. Featuring a stellar cast of top young Brazilian artists; and a smash there last summer.

The brilliant jazz pianist fizzing in amongst the South Indian guitar-playing of Prasanna, and Nitin Mitta’s classical, Hindustani tabla — shimmering through Steve Reich, post punk, Carnatic Ellingtonia…

Brilliant piano-trio jazz; warmly recommended.
‘Break Stuff’: what happens after formal considerations… a time for action… breakdowns, breakbeats, break dancing…
Hood is a humbly bamboozled tribute to Robert Hood. Work is for Iyer’s beloved Thelonious Monk. Countdown sets Trane to a West African rhythm. Mystery Woman is driven by the compound pulses of South Indian drumming. There’s a desolate, barely-there solo version of Billy Strayhorn’s Blood Count…