As known for his best selling book Effortless Mastery as his playing, not forgetting his role as the former teacher of a certain Bradford Alexander Mehldau, pianist Kenny Werner plays Ronnie Scott’s on Monday 26 May co-leading a quartet with the great but these days below-the-radar Puerto Rican saxophone star David Sánchez (The Departure, Travesia, etc).

Last summer Werner was on devastating form in a trio setting at the Sligo Jazz Festival joined by the WDR Big Band bassist John Goldsby and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra drummer John Riley. Werner’s own tune ‘Iago’, with its bittersweet heart-on-sleeve melody, was one of the highlights that night in the Hawk’s Well, the amusingly-introduced ‘Balloons’, Dave Brubeck’s laconic ‘In Your Own Sweet Way’, and Miles Davis’ ‘Nardis’ the others. Throughout Werner was able to run with his instincts and let the music flow, something the Frith Street audience more than respects.