That it comes out at the same time as two re-releases of his earlier work for Elektra also reinforces the fact that Callier's art has been remarkably of a piece for nearly 40 years now, no mean feat given his consistent rejection by record companies. One track, "African Violet", from 1978's Fire On Ice, appears on the new album, and give or take a few monstrous Seventies production decisions, all three discs sound irreducibly personal. In a neat bit of promotion, Callier has also been playing the Jazz Café again this last week.For anyone who has seen Callier perform in Britain since his reputation as an impeccably obscure creator of rare grooves caused him to be adopted by the soul-boy fraternity, the new live album will bring back many fond memories. The tracks are generally familiar, but there's an important addition to the repertoire, "Lament for the late AD", a tribute to Amadu Dialli, the unarmed man shot dead by the New York Police in 1999. This piece reaffirms Callier's folk-protest roots as part of the same Sixties Greenwich Village coffee-house scene which also helped to produce Richie Havens, Fred Neill and Tim Buckley.The backing for the album is perhaps more jazz-funk than one would wish for - those familiar with Callier's debut album are duty-bound to covet that incredible accompaniment of two double basses and little else - but it's pretty good stuff all the same.

As Callier goes into an all too brief cover of Curtis Mayfield's classic "People Get Ready", and the audience screams, you nearly find yourself doing so too.The Elektra reissues, Fire On Ice and Turn You To Love (both available on Warners), are partly great and partly dreadful, sometimes within the space of the same track. Both boast a big cast of big names (Eddie Harris and Ernie Watts on saxes, Fred Wesley on trombone, Keni Burke on bass), but the sometimes woeful tuning and general over-egging of the pudding can make them sound like the soul sessions from hell, with Callier forced to sing far beyond his range. The presence of Minnie Ripperton on backing vocals on Fire On Ice suggests just how much of Callier must have gone into Ripperton's big hit "Loving You". A cover of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" on Turn You to Love is OK, but it's not really our Tel. Alive is much nearer the mark.Terry Callier will be appearing at Trinity, Bristol, Sun; the Wardrobe, Leeds, Tues; Wilke Ho, Edinburgh, Wed; Café Life, Manchester, Thurs. The bombs are already beginning to fall on Jerry Bruckheimer's new, Disney-backed $130m (£90m) wartime epic, Pearl Harbor (scheduled to receive its world premiere in Hawaii in late May). The award-winning composer Hans Zimmer was reported last week to have been so dismayed by the film that he refused to write any new music for it.

(He is said to have dusted down the unused bits from his score for The Thin Red Line instead.) The usual, scurrilous critiques have already been posted on websites. "Not a movie for people who don't like jingoistic war movies with love triangles," notes one reviewer. Still, Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay will be encouraged by the wildly enthusiastic response of at least some of the spectators at preview screenings earlier this month. The special effects, it seems, are awesome: not surprising considering this is the most expensive movie of all time. The bombs are already beginning to fall on Jerry Bruckheimer's new, Disney-backed $130m (£90m) wartime epic, Pearl Harbor (scheduled to receive its world premiere in Hawaii in late May).

The award-winning composer Hans Zimmer was reported last week to have been so dismayed by the film that he refused to write any new music for it. (He is said to have dusted down the unused bits from his score for The Thin Red Line instead.) The usual, scurrilous critiques have already been posted on websites. "Not a movie for people who don't like jingoistic war movies with love triangles," notes one reviewer. Still, Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay will be encouraged by the wildly enthusiastic response of at least some of the spectators at preview screenings earlier this month.