THE MARVELLOUS OGJB Quartet  is comprised of alto saxophonist Oliver Lake,  cornetist Graham Haynes, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Barry Altschul and for Fonda, the music of OGJB “sings and strolls down the street, swings and dances, swirls around your body like water and grooves with a deep sense of musical history, finding a perfect synergy.”

Playing with such epochal musicians on their new album Bamako is “like walking on water,” he says. “It’s magical.”

The empathy characterising the album’s musicianship is all about “100 per cent listening to each other,” he affirms. “But you’re listening on a subconscious level. You stop listening on the literal level and take your mind out of the equation. We hear the music in the same way as we have done for the 15 years we’ve played together.”