The Message. Bass guitar great Stanley Clarke. Flashbacks yes music gives you flashbacks, one of its great joys, and I do recall the Clarke-Hakim-Hancock-Shorter quartet outdoors in Istanbul in the early-1990s reviewing the gig for Turkish Daily News. Made me love jazz even more that night, hearing ‘Footprints’ and full on jazz-rock by four masters easily more than the sum of their considerable parts in the open air in for me still the greatest city.

I am late to the party with the back catalogue of Stanley Clarke, but the last time that I heard the bassist and movie composer these past decades was when Return To Forever did a quick lap of honour at the BBC Jazz Awards in 2008 when the band was recognised for its lifetime achievement in music before moving on to play a gig later in the evening.

Takeaways from this album reading the glossy pixels on the label handout include “breakbeats and bass-interpreted cello suites with a little help from friends like rapper/beatboxer Doug E. Fresh and trumpeter Mark Isham.” That I got to hear.

Remember Isham’s work with a certain future “mystic of the East” (Isham is on ‘Bright Side of the Road’ in the horn section, the great Zakir Hussain is on tabla there also part of the secret genius of the Morrisonia) and more particularly the later modal revelation that is Blue Sun, which was a trip of a record in that it can send you into dreamland like few records are able to. You can almost touch the sound.

The Stanley Clarke Band at the core of the new Mack Avenue record is long tall Stanley of course plus a Joe Zawinul of our times Cameron Graves (synthesizers), rising star Beka Gochiashvili (acoustic piano), and the mighty Mike Mitchell on drums with the hardest job of all given the intricacies of the writing and ideas that rise up and pulse. Diary date to listen: 29 June.