The Fire Still Burns – the second album to be released by US improvising jazz musician Alan Braufman – arrives 45 years after the saxophonist's last full length. As on 1975's Valley Of Search, Braufman is joined by pianist Cooper-Moore, alongside newer collaborators tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, drummer Andrew Drury, bassist Ken Filiano and percussionist Michael Wimberly.

Braufman speaks about the importance of finding the right musicians for his style of playing in an interview in The Wire 439. “When I showed the music to the players on this new album”, says Braufman, “instantly we were heading in the right direction. Work too hard to get those basics across, and you’ve got the wrong musicians.”

Read more about the making of the record and Braufman's evolving influences in the print or digital edition of The Wire 439. The Fire Still Burns is released by Valley Of Search on 28 August.