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Keith Tippett and Dartington Improvising Trio, Vortex London
Brilliant sense of adventure and invention from jazz veterans

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.

Virtuoso: Keith Tippett (Pic: Bohdan Warchomij)

He’s part of the Dartington Improvising Trio with his old saxophone confrere Paul Dunmall and the ever-innovative wordless voice of Julie Tippetts — the Julie Driscoll of Brian Auger’s Trinity in the 1960s and This Wheels on Fire fame.

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