Thinking from the groove up, and prioritising how improvisers might more often space and stretch melodies against beats more than modes or harmonies, drummer-composers often seem to inhabit intriguing worlds of their own.

For two decades, one of the most unusual has been the New Jersey-born drummer and tabla player Dan Weiss, though his talents haven't been shared as widely as might have been expected in 2009, when Ben Ratliff included him in a New York Times piece entitled 'Five Drummers Whose Time Is Now'.

Dedication is the fourth album by Weiss's closely-attuned trio with pianist Jacob Sacks, and bassist Thomas Morgan, with all nine tracks being dedications, seven to artists, two to family members. ‘For Tim Smith’ (a tribute to the late frontman of cult prog/punk band Cardiacs) draws a Robert Glasperesque stream of chordal deflections and clipped motifs from the genre-fluid Sacks off Weiss's hustling, hip-hoppish groove. ‘For Vivienne’ (Weiss's young daughter) is a gently powerful waltz, ‘For Nancarrow’ a hypnotic mix of abstract musing and jolting rhythm changes, ‘For George Floyd’ an agitated series of heavily planted chord-clusters with drum and bass ripostes, building to triplet thumps almost certainly meant to mirror the words ‘I can't breathe'. 'For Andrei Tarkovsky', dedicated to the great Soviet film director, is appropriately the most eerily cinematic piece, 'For Elvin’ the most absorbingly and austerely jazzy, ‘For Grandma May’ the most poignantly delicate. Cutting-edge piano-trio jazz rarely comes more hauntingly personal than this.