Weighing in at a little over a minute you won't hear anything like it this year… try a little tenderness and hit play to discern where distance is overcome and the comfort of friends being honest is all on 'The More It Changes'. And you know it's like a Sesame Street moment in its poignancy new earlier in the year from considerable musicological boffin the former Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson in his prime now for many years, an intellectual and communicator in the best possible senses of both these significant words keeping things simple. Lyrics are by Ethan's wife, the writer Sarah Deming, and there is a wise philosophy to the whole texture of the song where the Ethan has landed and no one is preaching to the choir - let alone the choir. Goosebumps time - dry your eyes mate. Read more about the fine album from which 'The More It Changes' is drawn, Every Note is True

In a coup for the new-look club Ethan Iverson plays London's Vortex on Friday 5 August with Conor Chaplin and Martin France. Ethan Iverson photo via Blue Note