9  Eager to play and harmonise (5)

10 A top jazz vocalist, without piano, without instrumental accompaniment (1,8)

11 Clare Short disciplined after firing fifty musicians (9)

12 Del Shannon – a blast after being sampled (5)

13 A good time girl suffering from athlete’s foot? (6)

14 23 to close tour after taking in Luxembourg? (8)

16 A line from Genesis number about Tesla, the revolutionary behind electrical inductance (3,5,2,5)

19 Cuts away the outer layers restricting escape (8)

21 A French Catholic boy with nothing on (6)

23 One so-named singer died – another lives (5)

25 'Twist and Shout' on the radio? That's odd (9)

27 Draw attention to minor hiding drug (9)

28 French composer is to compose symphony at last (5)

 2  Cricketer observes embellishments to score (5,5)

 3  Clairvoyant left the tape running (8)

 4  Oscar finally received by top lyricist (4)

 5  Tatty coat found in Cambridge burial-place (8)

 6  Old keyboard work performed by a Spider from Mars? (6)

 7  Sing 'Bachelor Boy' when daughter's born (4)

 8  Song of a loafer (8)

15 Set up with a student high-flyer for a lawyer (5,5)

16 Big ship getting close to the Bounty (8)

17 Perhaps make improvements to colourful English house (8)

18 Lambert encounters an Austrian composer who has no close friends (4,4)

20 Slight crunching of unopened oilnuts (6)

22 Suspensions in song covered by O’Connor? (6)

24 One of the old strings taken from a cello I’ve picked up (4)

26 Topless German may be crackers (4)