Sun Ra, Julian Joseph: Ronnie Scott's, London

HAVING accelerated towards a state of whiteout in the late Sixties with the antics of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra, a state beyond which it was impossible to "progress" further, jazz in the Eighties and Nineties has been forced to retreat from the extremes into the more accessible idioms of the Fifties. Hence Julian Joseph, a protege of Courtney Pine.