Keith Tippet's career "encompassed many records and musical turns that are beyond dope"

Last weekend British jazz pianist and composer Keith Tippett has died, with Raspberry Fields' Piotr Orlov writing a lovely short text about the musician. Orlov sees him as "an indispensable connector between the post-psychedelic jazz-rock folks, the free-form players, the South African expats who were completely turning the sound of improvisation upside down, and the chaotic big-bands that were striking many different kinds of fancies". Tippet collaborated a lot - with Stan Tracey, Julie Tippetts (his wife, née Driscoll, King Crimson - "his career encompasses many many records and musical turns that are beyond dope, and have seemingly little to do with one another, except that the players on them strangely overlap, and Tippett is often near the center".