The debt owed by British jazz to the Blue Notes/Brotherhood of Breath is immediately apparent here. All but Tippett and Dvorak served with the mighty Brotherhood and that inspiration segues through these eight tracks. This is music of constant ebb and flow where solos emerge naturally from the stream only to be drawn back by turbulent ensemble passages into the rising tide. Moments of calm persist but briefly and, breath caught, Ninesense are once more diving into swell. The playing is at times breathtaking and Miller and Moholo are astonishing, while Skidmore and Beckett on ‘Sweet F.A.’ and Dean himself on ‘Seven For Lee’ are just two standouts. Recorded by Italian jazz mover-and-shaker, Riccardo Bergerone, the tapes of this wild, storm-driven set have been painstakingly worked by Mike King of Reel Recordings. What you hear is much as it would have sounded that night at the 100 Club: powerful, vibrant, overwhelming but also inchoate, perhaps. In all conscience, I can't give this the four stars it might otherwise deserve – despite King's best efforts. The piano is barely audible much of the time, for example. But the music, man, is formidabile, davvero formidabile!