With tracks including ‘Armchair March’, ‘Nights at the Circus’ and ‘As I Was Saying’ the release of Arriving later this summer, trailed above, includes material from the influential big band’s farewell residency at Ronnie Scott's in 1990 (picking up the story later heard on archive releases Dancing on Frith Street and Säd Afrika) as well as new material, their first issued since reforming.

Recently a winner of a Jazz FM award for best live experience Loose Tubes will also return to Ronnie’s for September dates.

And the story is not over there as still the most tantalising thing about the band are the missing pieces of the jigsaw and the fact that their first albums particularly (Loose Tubes and Delightful Precipice) still have not been reissued on CD. On LP they remain among the most highly sought-after British jazz of the last 30 years. In the jargon (copyright Ray’s Jazz), “rare as hen’s teeth.” And in a case of what goes around... comes around (eventually), Chris Batchelor piece ‘Arriving’, the title track of this new release, featured on the Tubes’ 1985 debut.