Fusion • Prog • Third Stream 

"UNFINISHED BUSINESS is a remarkable album comprising of some quite wonderful music and performances from PERFECT STRANGER."
"Chris Sansom's compositions have been lying in wait for fifty years, but these works have not dated at all … ”
“Contemporary writing for a jazz ensemble at its finest” — Nick Lea, Jazz Views. 

"Making light of its complexities and its stylistic variations this is thrilling, ‘seat of the pants’ stuff..."
"Even after half a century the music still sounds fresh and exciting, qualities that are enhanced by the superb playing of Sansom’s hand picked, all star, contemporary jazz ensemble."
“Whatever the sum of its influences UNFINISHED BUSINESS is an impressive work in its own right and more than justifies its release after a fifty year wait.” — Ian Mann, The Jazz Mann

Check out the back story in more detail on the About page.

our Album, Unfinished Business, is here!
Perfect Stranger at AIR Studios, October 2023

Perfect Stranger at AIR Studios, October 2023. Left to right: Paul Michael, Eddy White, Shanti Jayasinha,
Jonas Golland, Alcyona Mick, Chris Sansom, Tom Green, Mick Foster, Rob Millett, Adam Bishop. Photo: Drift Studios

“...a vivacious score jostling with startling ideas"
"UNFINISHED BUSINESS reveals how the most complex musical ideas can nowadays be reinvented both accurately and freely by improv-savvy performers, helping to give the most intricately composed shapes the openness and fluidity of songs." — John Fordham, UK Jazz News

"An album that will be remembered — and played — long after other equally ambitious projects have been forgotten. It's simply magnificent!" — Lance Liddle, Bebop Spoken Here.

Note: Try as I might to keep all this in the third person, it's all too easy to slip into the first, so wherever you see 'I', 'my', etc., it's Chris Sansom speaking! (the one in the silly shorts, clutching a big score.)