‘La Marseillaise’-quoting Roswell Rudd, still an enduring global inspiration on the world of free improv and jazz trombone, his long-term influence felt on a range of improvisers such as Paul Rutherford (1940-2007), a spur also to the free thinking Sarah Gail Brand. Via broad brushstrokes in the erudite themes the best trombone/piano passages of all occur towards the end of ‘Struttin’ For Jah Jah,’ an eye-popping panorama of musical consciousness that sweeps down to the plains of Kid Ory from the mountain top eyrie of Cecil Taylor. Recently turned 80, Rudd, whose playing over the years has decorated such landmark recordings from the New Thing as Archie Shepp’s Mama Too Tight and the later avant freebop landmark Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, improvises completely compellingly.Simply a collective thrill,Trevor Dunn roaming. SG. Dunn, above left, photo: courtesy RareNoise, Jamie Saft, Roswell Rudd and Balazs Pandi.