Take the current craze for mindfulness, add one pioneering jazz album, get a 400-strong audience to listen to it in silence, then bring them back to hear a key period of the artist's music brought to life by some of the most groundbreaking contemporary musicians around .
'All-star' is a term mostly out of fashion these days.
Given the background of trombonist Annie Whitehead and her involvement with African music, it came as no surprise that the concert at Leamington's Restaurant in the Park reflected this and the spirit of Dudu Pukwana, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba was in the air.
This April saw the third edition of the Transition Festival take place at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Holland.
David Sanborn, who has perhaps the most distinctive and influential alto sax sound in contemporary jazz, R&B and funk, is now in his early seventies, but he's still full of surprises.
The backstory: having written the music during a personally difficult year Bristol-based bass player Greg Cordez decided to recruit some of his favourite New York musicians to record it over there.
It's a treat to have the opportunity see a band who rarely play live.
While it's gratifying in the extreme to see the amount of attention that's starting to coalesce around the current crop of young British jazz players, the bedrock of the music shouldn't be overlooked.
is a quiet, post-industrial town separated from Serbia's capital Belgrade by the Danube.
Imber Court out in leafy East Molesey was once the Met Police's private playground.
