As all British schoolchildren, past and present, know, Dr Who regenerates every few years and steps out of his Tardis looking completely different. You could say the same of Dr Woo – aka Bernie Worrell – in audio terms, at least. The former keyboard king with George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic has rarely rested on his laurels, regularly re-emerging, in his collaborations with the likes of Talking Heads, with a new sound. On this new disc, the Moog master gives up his synths for simple, solo piano and abandons the more space-age sounds that defined his early career in favour of just, well, space. In this highly ambient recording, produced by Bill Laswell and released on the avant-gardist's own label, he takes on a series of standards drawn from different genres: ‘In A Silent Way’, Santana's ‘Samba Pa Ti’, Bob Marley's ‘Redemption Song’. It's lyrical and unhurried – he strips the melodies down but, having done that, never attempts anything too obviously complex or too jazz. This isn't a demonstration of technical chops or of lightning fingers, but rather of spacious, easy taste and joyous simplicity. And you've got to be good to pull that off.