Here's an unexpected act of revisiting – not least because of the financial and logistical demands in gathering such large forces. Composer/trumpeter Michael Mantler's groundbreaking 1968 The Jazz Composer's Orchestra featured a host of top-notch improvisers – Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Larry Coryell – and put down a marker for post-bop avant-garde large ensemble playing in the free-jazz era. For this Update, the written portion of the original material has been reworked and supplemented, with Mantler – who plays trumpet on the suite – setting out to integrate the composed and improvised elements more tightly than on the 1968 work. There's no way the new version, recorded live at the Porgy & Bess club in Vienna in 2013, could have the same revolutionary impact but it's still a remarkable reimagining that brings the 1960s original into the 21st century by adding the amplified radio.string.quartet.vienna, who perform alongside the Nouvelle Cuisine Big Band conducted by Christoph Cech, and pushing Bjarne Rupé's electric guitar to the fore.