Must be the clouds in my eyes: Blowing in from Stockholm and after compilation So Far dropped earlier in the year not a lot to go on about what is next from the Daniel Karlsson trio but first of all the label behind the 11 October release of Fuse Number Eleven will once again be Brus & Knaster. They have already put out the splendidly titled game changer of a live affair At The Feel Free Falafel which already has reached cult status among the less insane scene watchers in the coterie of global piano jazz trio worshippers out there – and understandably so. 

As for the Coventry gig mentioned above it will be at Earlsdon Street spot the Albany Club on 7 November. Details. Their brief English and Scottish three-date tour will also take in Oswestry and Glasgow (appearing at the Blue Arrow).

Coventry of course is a brilliant if tough town for music and yet suffers so much through history. Marlbank misses the Coventry jazz festival which used to take place in venues such as the Belgrade theatre there and where once we managed to hear Randy Brecker (and have not repeated that feat unfortunately given Randy’s lack of heavy touring here since). The Specials came from the midlands city and immortalised what locals lovingly refer to as Cov during Thatcher’s ruinous years when she took a wrecking ball to industrial Britain and in ‘Ghost Town’ inspired the downtrodden and dispossessed everywhere. 

The lead track of the new Daniel Karlsson trio album is ‘Fuse Number Eleven’. Recall the trio from last year, cast your mind back regular readers. Briefly marlbank dropped in to Soho spot the basement situated Spice kindly admitted by the venue’s in house conjurer Jackie Docherty and club guiding light occasional singer Paul Pace. Pianist Daniel Karlsson was with bassist Christian Spering and his faithful long time comrade drummer Fredrik Rundqvist. Monster ostinatos whether eating from the pianist’s left hand or out of the blue from the bass tumbled from the sky. Look for the trio this autumn. You will not regret it.