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Jimmy's ballads were updated last night by contemporary themes of loneliness and weariness on the road. "Eighteen cities in 16 days," sang Regen. "Somebody tell me how this pays."

His piano fills, alternately funky and frantic, held the interest as an air of Seventies blue-eyed soul, Carole King-style, began to descend. All drummer John Miller and five-string bass guitarist PJ Phillips needed to do was maintain a holding pattern of steady funk-beats while John discharged self-centred numbers like Finding My Way Back to Me and the title track of his latest album, Let it Go ("Originally called I Fell in Love with a Lesbian, then, Be Yourself but Before I Buy You Dinner").

A Manhattan friend, singer Camilla Thompson, stepped out of the audience to add harmony notes to I Come Undone, but things didn't liven up until Little One, Regen's individualistic take on child-rearing in a modern world.

"First stage, keep your jeans cut tight/Second stage, keep them closed at night/Third stage, give up without a fight/Then go and find your way through life."

Regen's right-hand licks are agile, but not as slick as his lyrics.

Until tomorrow. Information: 020 7734 3220.

John Regen Trio
Pizza Express Jazz Club, W1