All good things come round again. Three is the trio’s first album in a dozen years but there’s a nary a sense of a comeback here. Over the years they’ve toured together in different formats, so the easeful intimacy of their interaction remains as supple and subtle as ever. Loueke is simply one of the most sophisticated guitarists of his generation, gracefully moving between the deep grooving of the aptly monikered ‘Happiness’, molten with Biolcati’s superb electric bass figure, to the soul-dark ‘13th Floor to Heaven’, with Biolcati now on double bass and Loueke all complex harmonies and vortexing lines.

To cap it all, the only cover is a delicately singing, harmonics sparkled ‘Little Wing’ which Jimi would purr over. And he’d probably wish he’d been around to appreciate Loueke’s west African heritage epitomised in Highlife lavishness of ‘Brio’. And behind it all, Nemeth is as relaxed as he is intense, mastering a range of time signatures that boggle, provoke but are never far from dance. An album that will be one of the quiet joys of the year.