Brilliant pianist Gwilym Simcock leads this tribute to the works associated with the short-lived but highly influential American bassist Jaco Pastorius. Featuring the incredible electric bass of Laurence Cottle and the percussion and drums of rising star Josh Savage!

Writing in The Guardian John Fordham summed it up: ‘Much of Pastorius’s music has been interpreted by big ensembles and by Weather Report, but Simcock achieved considerable breadth with just the trio. Simcock’s ingenious arrangements allowed the piano not only to evoke the textures of bigger lineups on tunes such as the Joni Mitchell/Pastorius collaboration Jericho, Liberty City, Young and Fine, Elegant People (from Weather Report’s Black Market album) Young and Fine, Bright Size Life (from the 1975 Pat Metheny debut album that also revealed Pastorius to a wider world). Simcock’s account of Mitchell’s Jericho almost stole the set, however, in its softly rocking melancholy, poignant harmonies and patiently spacey basslines. The gig cherished Pastorius’s lyricism, when many celebrations of him concentrate on virtuosic hyper-funk’.