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.
This year the Belgrade Jazz Festival chose a programme more aimed at exploration than familiarity and featured many emerging artists plus a smattering of more familiar names to add balance to the line-up.
Jazz was just the starting point at an eclectic fifth edition of the So What's Next? jazz and beyond festival that took place in Eindhoven, Netherlands in early November.
At 87 Chris Barber is somewhat stooped and tends to ramble when addressing the audience.
Among the more obscure exponents of minimalism and classical avant-garde, the late Julius Eastman was nonetheless a compelling composer and all round agent provocateur whose oeuvre resonates loudly in the 21st century.
Those with long memories know that the precedent to this performance reaches far back.
