Gilad Atzmon has made many visits to Tyneside over the past decade, most frequently with versions of his Orient House Ensemble, but this gig at the Cluny puts him in an entirely new context - a power packed organ trio with Ross Stanley at the Hammond and Asaf Sirkis on drums.

Because of Gilad's interest in the relationship between jazz and the music of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, it has sometimes been easy to forget just what a superb interpreter he is of the bebop legacy. But there's no risk of such an oversight in this band, combining the deep bluesiness of some of the great organ trios of the 1960s with the dynamism that made Gilad a natural for the late Ian Drury's Blockheads. In fact when we chanced across Asaf Sirkis and asked him about this band, he said, "It's great, but you should warn the audience to wear their seat belts!"

So this is Gilad in full-on hard bop mode, reminding us that he he can be one of the most fearsome full throttle saxophonists anywhere on the UK scene. No doubt there will also be quieter interludes, with some of his more measured clarinet playing, but with such tearaway company as Ross and Asaf, this promises in the main to be music that strips the paint from the Cluny's walls. Sit back and enjoy!