If you must point a finger at a clutch of albums that brought us the inglorious phenomenon that is ‘Smooth Jazz’, then seek no more. Indeed, if you want specifics, check out track two of Blow It Out, ‘Smoothin’ On Down’. Slicker than a bucket of oiled up eels, rarely have so many good musicians combined to create so little, um, music. The ghastly irony is that although Scott claimed to follow a heritage that embraced King Curtis and Cannonball what he spawned was Kenny G and a host of anodyne imitators.

Blow It Out does open with ‘Gotcha’, a pimped up version of the Starsky & Hutch theme, but there’s barely anything else matching even that energy. Intimate Strangers is even more ooze-some, a bizarre ‘concept’ album of squirmingly bad taste, tracing the lost love of a lonely sax man. But of course this will read as humourless carping. Many, not least those in radioland, still hanker for these golden years of FM airplay and dinging cash tills. Indeed, for Street Beat, Scott did drop the squadrons of studio specialists for a more ‘at home’ sound, but this is still ear candy. What’s frustrating is that Scott can play, and later he did explore the music of Cannonball and bop heroes. But this trio of LPs was definitely not where those guys were at.