Music preview: Jaimeo Brown prepares to bring his Transcendence Trio to Dundee Jazz Festival

The weary slugging of a Mississippi chain gang, the slam of a cell door, the lonely lament of the blues… Despite these signifiers of oppression, servitude and injustice, all of them woven into the mesmerising audio collages created by Jaimeo Brown and his Transcendence project, the inventive New York drummer, educator and ethnomusicologist insists that, at the end of the day his message is one of optimism – “one hundred per cent”– despite the political darkness that seems to be engulfing the USA and elsewhere. Hence the name of his band, and an ethos that was partly inspired by an extraordinary craft community, the Gee’s Bend Quilters.