[ REVIEWS: Music Trio 3 and Keith Tippett 's Piano Quintet:Robert

Music Trio 3 and Keith Tippett 's Piano Quintet:Robert Wyatt 's brilliantly bizarre musical meldings continue with three jazz Titans performing alongside the inventive and intriguing pianist/composer Tippett.The formidable threesome of Trio 3 comprises Andrew Cyrille,one of the pre-eminent free jazz percussionists of the past two decades;the sizzling sax of Oliver Lake,founder member of the World Saxophone Quartet;and Reggie Workman,whose legendary career has seen him play with the likes of Coltrane, Blakey and Monk.Despite his forays into art rock,Tippett has always been an avant-garde innovator at heart,defying categorisation and tonight performing his work of modern lyricism and jazz sensibility, Linuckea,for piano and strings.

QEH,SE1,7.45pm,12.50-15, 020 7960 4242.

Clem Snide:Often to be seen clad in dire powder-blue suits, this East Coast outfit take their name from a character in William Burroughs 's hallucinatory novel,Naked Lunch,but their revelries are more small-town melodic than urban trippy.Tales of failed romance and wistful Americana are told in a sedate country style with the band 's central trio of Eef Barzelay,Jason Glasser and Jeff Marshall combining vocals, guitar,cello and double bass to create songs of easy irony,tinged with a yearning naivety.

Monarch,NW1,doors 7.30pm, 7,020 7916 1049.

Rocket From the Crypt:If it 's raw,riotous and diabolically good rock that you 're after then look no further.San Diego soul-shaker John Reis (below)and the boys serve up jet-propelled punkabilly on a pitchfork,and with their latest LP,Group Sounds,released this week

they 're back with a vengeance.

Live,they come into their own, detonating an explosive soundwall,including a hellbent horn section and full-tilt theatricality,to devastating effect.Electric Ballroom,NW1, doors 7pm,10,020 7485 9006.

Club Nearest and Dearest:Returning to their monthly residence of cosy cool,Andy Cato and Tom Findlay (aka Groove Armada) will be bringing their spin cycle of lo-funk lounge and chunky choons to their Hoxton home along with the rare grooves of Strut records ' Toni Rossano and Quintin.The venue 's mix of heavy bass in the basement and chilled party in the loft complements the pair perfectly and,with visual stimulation from the San Frandisco vjs,you should prepare to be utterly smitten.Herbal,E2, 7.30pm-2am,5,020 7613 4462.

Theatre My Husband is a Spaceman: Kazuko Hohki (below)is part cult punk goddess,part intimate storyteller and dabbler in the worlds of low-and high-tech.All of this makes for a pretty unique theatrical experience as Hohki, performing the final part of an extraordinary trilogy exploring the experiences of a Japanese woman living in England, recounts a love story between an office lady and an anthropologist.

Incorporating video and digital animation alongside simple Japanese theatre techniques, her tales cast a funny and touching personal perspective on the everyday and the exceptional alike.BAC, SW11,8.30pm,5.50-8.75, 020 7223 2223.

Art Layla Curtis:Curtis has developed her own form of globe- chopping,making collaged maps that mix and match the outline of one country with the place names of another.This may be the sort of thing to shake up the folks at the National Geographic Society but the twisted cartography saw this recent graduate nominated for the New Contemporaries show in 1999.Now Curtis is back with her first solo London show,which features tracings and drawings alongside the eccentric map works.Rhodes and Mann,E2, times vary,020 7729 4372.

Heather Chontos:When she 's not styling interiors or illustrating fashion magazines, Chontos gets busy creating compelling paintings.Having lived in New York,Barcelona and,for the past four years, London,her imagery documents the restless experiences of city living.She backs up the visual snippets with snatches of text, which combine,over the surface of the canvas,to tell a broken, half- remembered story.Stephen Lacey Gallery,EC1,Tuesday-Friday 10am- 6pm,Saturday noon-4pm,020 7837 5507.

Forty years on

When Malcolm Morley was awarded the first Turner Prize back in 1984, the critics were up in arms. Not only was he not a UK resident, but one critic even implied that he couldn't paint.

This long-overdue survey show allows us to reassess Morley's work from the past 40 years. It includes the picture-perfect, photo- realist ocean liners he painted with nostalgic clarity in the Sixties, Beach Scene from 1968 (pictured) and his recent Picture Plane series, inspired by a catalogue for model-aeroplane enthusiasts. Hayward Gallery, SE1, 10am-6pm, from tomorrow, 020 7960 5226.

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