The opening weekend of the EFG London Jazz Festival, and the world's coolest thumbslinger was in town, wielding not one but three bass guitars and leading a crack band of musical brothers whose empathetic exchanges verged on the spiritual.
Thirty years in, two Grammys along and Marcus Miller is still at the top of his game, showing off the chops - that crazy funky pluck-and-slap bass technique - that made him a session player for artists so great they go by one name: Dizzy. Herbie. Aretha. Beyoncé. Elton. Miles.
