Virtually every piece played tonight is, in one sense, popular music of today: yet in various ways the artists draw their inspiration from the past. Derek Jewell illustrates the nostalgic preoccupations of many contemporary artists with the music of the PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA, RY COODER. FIVE RAND REEL and THE CHIEFTAINS. There is even literary inspiration from the past with a section from CHICK COREA'S suite The Mad Hatter as well as the fresh sounds of the American jazz-rock band AURACLE...