Always pushing boundaries, Halsall’s music blends his love of the modal jazz of John and Alice Coltrane and Eastern music, with rain-streaked visions from his hometown of Manchester. The result is a sublime and sultry Spiritual jazz all of his own. His latest album Into Forever, takes the Halsall sound still further, influenced by contemporary electronica and the classic Cadet recordings of Dorothy Ashby and Psychedelic-Soul arrangements of Charles Stepney (Rotary Connection, Minnie Ripperton, Terry Callier).