Invece ai propri affezionati Mike Westbrook offre l'intera serie dei suoi concerti in solo degli anni più recenti, registrati amorevolmente da Matthew North in diverse occasioni - a Dartington, Londra, Topsham e Ashburton tra il 2022 e il 2024 - accomunate dall'accattivante titolo The Piano and Me: quattro volumi, grosso modo l'equivalente di cinque cd, ora integralmente disponibili in formato digitale a cura di Chris Topley tramite Bandcamp, accompagnati da un paio di estratti video e da un'approfondita presentazione scritta da Gary Bayley. Grazie, Maestro!
"Perhaps this is the music that late period Keith Jarrett and/or Brad Mehldau could have come up with had they had been equipped with the composing, arranging, and orchestrating, experience of some seventy years. Perhaps this is the music that Berg, Webern, or Schoenberg, could have produced had they been interested in performing for an audience and with a concern for entertainment by effective communication. Whatever! Such comparisons are fun thought-experiments but the best thing to do practically is to listen to this music as it is, on its own terms, as being Mike Westbrook art-music in the Mike Westbrook jazz tradition'."