I have not been to New Orleans, but I imagine this is the music that drifts through the streets on a warm summer’s night.

Allen is a 71-year old New Orleans based jazz pianist and you can hear all that it entails in every note that he plays. ‘The Bright Mississippi’ comes across as a carefully constructed play, where each instrument has a definitive role, a moment where it steps into the spotlight, but never overshadows fellow players.

The production is tightly controlled, but the emotion unbridled. Something that I often find missing in technically correct jazz.

His rendition of the folk song St. James Infirmary puts Louis Armstrong, Jools Holland and Tom Jones to shame.

There is one obvious drawback to having discovered Toussaint. A large chunk of my music collection now seems insipid in comparison.