Soweto Kinch raps like a champion and plays like a dream

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And as an alto-saxophonist he’s phenomenal. His playing, arranging and composing grows ever stronger and at 32 he’s still short of his peak. His new album — "predicated on applying the blues to global economics and modern wage slavery" — earned five stars and last night’s extended live performance of it was even more impressive.

Hearing beautiful yet challenging originals (An Ancient Worksong, On the Treadmill, Suspended Adolescence) played with such passion and instrumental virtuosity, it was hard to imagine stronger contemporary jazz being played anywhere else in the world.

Backed with evident enjoyment by bassist Karl Rasheed-Abel, drummer Graham Godfrey and guitarist Femi Tomowo, whose Yoruba-based quartet had stylishly opened the show, Kinch took one massive solo after another. Singers Jason McDougall and Eska Mtungwazi, plus a brass trio of trumpeter Byron Wallen, trombonist Harry Brown and tenorist Shabaka Hutchings, then boosted the group sound to almost Ellingtonian proportions.
Only one word of advice: stop talking over applause. Just enjoy it. You’ll still sell those albums in the foyer.

Festival runs until Sunday. Information: londonjazzfestival.org.uk

Soweto Kinch: The New Emancipation
Queen Elizabeth Hall
SE1