Touring widely with Pat Metheny this year in what amounts to a new career peak, pianist Gwilym Simcock features on a superb new release by the veteran classical music group Delta Saxophone Quartet to be launched on Tuesday. 

Titled Crimson! following an earlier prog foray the quartet undertook themed around the music of Soft Machine, this latest album from the Deltas (above with Simcock on the right) is a tribute to the spinosaurus of progressive rock, King Crimson, and involves the commission of new music from Simcock reinterpreting Fripp and co’s music.  

The quartet’s Chris Caldwell and long-time Impossible Gentleman Simcock bonded at a football match, according to label blurb found on Amazon UK, back of the net, who are displaying a 26 Feb release date. Tickets via the Pizza Express site