Christian Scott

The jazz trumpeter and his band had the crowd eating out of their hands

With his latest critically acclaimed release, The Centennial Trilogy, Adjuah has worked to link the jazz past with the future using fusion and trap sounds, and he continued in that style during this set.

Scott is visiting the UK with a resourceful sextet including his vocalist wife Isadora Mendez-Scott and rising star 19-year-old Elena Pinderhughes the most exciting and creatively assured jazz flautist to have emerged in years.

London Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, London, UK

Instead of the clearly-articulated pure-toned pulse of a Louis or a Dizzy Scott’s trumpet voice is smudgy occasionally even grimy with chromatic bursts of notes played so fast you can’t always hear the join.

Benson's current UK tour ostensibly promotes his jazzier new album Guitar Man but he turned the Albert Hall into a 70s disco (for a crowd on its feet singing ecstatically along) once he launched into his big hits.

Twenty years earlier he had been a fresh-faced and streetwise teenage guitar foil to organist Jack McDuff and by the mid-1970s he had achieved guitar-hero fame and crossover fortune with the album Breezin’ – he opened this gig with the title track.