The term ‘drums’ has always had much room for interpretation. Each player sets up their kit according to their taste and intention, and there is no hard and fast rule as to how the instrument (or loose family of instruments, to be precise) will be deployed.

Andrew Cyrille is one of the legendary figures who, along with Milford Graves and Pierre Favre, brilliantly blurred the line between the concept of drummer and that of percussionist. Tellingly, it is the 'p' word that features in the title of this engrossing solo session.

As he has shown for over five busy decades, the youthful octogenarian is a master of colour and texture as well as pulse and rhythm, both strictly regimented and astutely liberated. On one hand the conventional approach of a drummer – using sticks – is deployed to quite thrilling effect on a reprise of Amina Claudine Myers’ ‘Jumping In The Sugar Bowl’, which is all sparky energy and phrasal flurries.

But what Cyrille does elsewhere, either with hands, mallets, knitting needles or various metallic objects, takes him into a realm of sound design in which myriad changing timbres as well as lines evolve into savvy orchestration. Or rather Cyrille is boldly reminding us that an array of cymbals will lead him into an entirely different space to a string of cowbells. With peerless authority he is both celebrating and challenging the meanings and implications of the words drums and percussion.