Both visually and vocally there is no question about the lineage of Jacqui Dankworth. She shares the same sophisticated, cool musicianship that her parents - Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth – displayed for half a century. Her vocal qualities are hugely reminiscent of her mother, as is her stage presence.

Butterfly’s Wing is an occasional project in which she combines with three of the country’s major jazz talents – pianist David Gordon (who also composed much of the evening’s material), violinist Chris Garrick and cellist Ben Davis.

Much of the music was on the cusp of Classical and Jazz, and most of it distinctly avant-garde , with pointillist dots of transparent string texture juxtaposing with Dankworth’s rich solo in Kurt Weill’s September Song and vocal lines in the last of Three Mad Songs that brought to mind the music of Luciano Berio.

Elsewhere there was wonderful, but always controlled, virtuosity from the players with memorable solo improvisations and complex rhythmic dexterity in music full of conflicting metre and incorporating a full range of string techniques.

The singing was also expertly knitted into the texture, always part of it rather than a soloist with backing.

My only ‘criticism’ of the evening (beyond the shamefully sparse audience) was that music of such intimate delicacy would have worked even better in the bar area of the College where these world-class musicians could have communicated even more directly with the audience.