
He’ll be 78 later this year, but with European tour dates ongoing and his third Tull album in under four years, Ian Anderson is on something of a later-years creative roll.
Anderson’s solo album scheduled for 2017 emerged as Jethro Tull’s The Zealot Gene in 2022. The following year’s RökFlöte made the British Top 20. While both albums missed both guitarist Martin Barre and a certain sparkle, neither gave serious cause for concern.