I don’t know about you, but if I meet a traveller who speaks fluently in many languages and shares his tales of lands far flung from my experience, I’m mightily impressed. So why Calhoun, fluent in rock, bop and African musics should be criticised for his eclecticism baffles me. Life In This World is as expansive as the title suggests and wears its influences joyfully on its sleeve, like badges of honour. Miles and Elvin Jones on the opening ‘Brother Will’, Monk, though mightily re-imagined on ‘Evidence’ and Coltrane (‘Naima’ seen through a latin prism) are all here. But Calhoun’s vision isn’t imitative: a notable fan of Tony Williams, when Calhoun embraces ‘Spectrum’, much covered by the little genius, he strips out any rock feel and re-focuses it as a bop piano trio with Cary in full flight.

Cary and Moffett are ever-presents on the recording, underwriting the project’s wide net with a sonic consistency, and when the guests do kick in, like Harrison’s alto on the angular but lyric ‘King Tut Strut’, it’s glove tight with the song’s wider vision. What’s more, virtually every cut has acres of space for soloists to stretch out: it’s rare outside of a live recording to hear soloists given such space to express themselves freely, but that’s another facet of Calhoun’s generous ethos. So sit back and revel in these stories from around the world, stories that are really told in only one language: the jazz one.