Backed by electric bass and drums, Malone played two sets of dynamic, powerful, driving and inventive piano, often at a bewilderingly fast tempo in which his fingers became mere blurs hammering at the keyboard.

Power and pace were mixed with more soulful and lyrical moments.

His music is such an eclectic mix that generalisation is impossible, but in that mix are New Orleans rhythm and blues, funky soul, Chicago blues, boogie-woogie, ragtime syncopation, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll.

Although his stage presence is flamboyant and energetic, he came across in an interval chat as a modest and warm individual.

His final encore was a solo and imaginative keyboard treatment of Bob Dylan’s Tangled Up In Blue, but the abiding memory as I drove home was of that blistering speed — TK.