AFTER a succession of serious health ailments and for the first time in over a year, one of jazz’s great virtuoso pianists, veteran Keith Tippett performs again at an old and beloved haunt.

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The decades tumble away in an amalgam of brilliant contemporary invention in combinations of sounds that you’ve never heard before, even after half a century.