Keith Tippett obituary

Brilliant jazz pianist and composer who could make the outlands of modern music feel like the most hospitable of placesFew free-improvising musicians, singlemindedly stirring the soundworlds of lyricism, jagged dissonance, recognisable melody and raw noise, can bring audiences to stunned silence and leave stages to awed ovations. Even fewer are likely to have appearances at jazz clubs, contemporary-classical festivals and on Top of the Pops – but they were all in a lifetime’s work fo