Tonight at the Wigmore Hall trio fans are well catered for once again with the return to London of the Christian McBride Trio.

Two years on from Out Here (the Philly jazz bass legend’s first piano trio album), McBride is joined at the famous chamber venue by his other trio members featured on the Mack Avenue release: pianist Christian Sands and by drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.

A double bass-led piano trio is very different to a piano-led piano trio, listen to the very different Phronesis and Avishai Cohen trios in this regard for further food for thought, the shape and trajectory of the music, the little accents, the mix, idiosyncrasies, and a sense of momentum all come out differently.

Out Here remains after many listens a smart suit supper club modern mainstream kind of jazz album, feelgood and not affected at all: there’s no crankiness anywhere, or coasting.

Tunes include, and maybe some of them will be played at the Hall, the down home blues ‘Ham Hocks and Cabbage’, Oscar Peterson’s ‘Hallelujah Time’, McBride’s own ‘I Guess I’ll Have To Forget’, and Dr Billy Taylor’s ‘Easy Walker.’

Sands, above left, with McBride centre and Owens Jr on the right, on the record breaks out brilliantly on ‘East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)' while McBride’s beautiful arco feature at the beginning of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘I Have Dreamed’, a song from The King and I, is also a moment to savour.

Before the gig Christian McBride is also appearing in conversation for a pre-gig audience talk at 5:30pm. Details: here