This latest album from South African pianist Dyer came out back in the early autumn.

Recorded in a Cape Town studio in June just this year the album appears four years on from Emancipate the Story.

The title “World music” is deceptive in a way – this isn’t world music in a pop sense at all or even a “jazz-world” mash-up and in fact is quite a heartland jazz record in many ways – and not always identifiable as very South African in complexion yet I couldn’t help thinking back to the much missed Moses Molelekwa in hearing Dyer in some parts of the album.

Joined by bassist Shane Cooper, drummer Marlon Witbooi (the trio in action are above in the video), tenorist Buddy Wells, altoist Justin Bellairs, trumpeter Robin Fassie-Kock, and vocalists Sakhile Moleshe, Lee-Anne Fortuin and John Hassan, I liked the trio sections, e.g. ‘Reflection’ best of all, as well as the mournful trumpet-led ballad ‘The Artist’ adding a very knowing Masekelian take on the classic modern mainstream ballad tradition.

When Dyer switches to keyboards on ‘Recess’ there is also a hip funkiness to what the leader conjures up that recalls the ingenuity and spirit of Herbie Hancock in his jazz-funk pomp.

More broadly Dyer seems to have absorbed the sound of a new generation stemming from US pianists like Robert Glasper as well as the classic mainstream traditions of the music and fashioned all this into an appealing combination.

Yet on ‘See My People Through’ he goes one step further and manages to harness the avant Coltranian traditions of the 1960s highly effectively injecting his own style via a clever arrangement.

There’s a lot going on here – perhaps the net is spread a little too wide – but the album’s driving spirit and compositional strength keeps up the momentum throughout. Well worth discovering.

Hear Bokani Dyer at the 606 in London on 25 November; and just announced Dyer also plays the late show at the Vortex on Saturday 28 November