The Guardian affida alle parole di Richard Williams il compito di ricordare Keith Tippett, con un pezzo dal titolo The jazz great who saw music as a source of goodness: "The era of general optimism for his generation ended in the middle of the 1970s, when the record industry realised that the money was elsewhere, but Tippett remained a positive force in British music. His core belief was that when the music started, goodness would happen. Not just good music but good human connections."