THE last time that I heard the late Mike Westbrook play piano was in September 2023 when he played a duet with his long-time alto saxophone confrere, Chris Biscoe. The event was a tribute at Cafe Oto to two pioneering British jazz labels Cadillac and Ogun, and Westbrook announced that their improvisation was a blues in remembrance to Cadillac’s founder, John Jack, for whom he recorded in the late ’60s and early ’70s. It was a deeply moving piece, full of love and gratitude.