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As sure as the cold begins to bite and darkness takes big gulps out of the afternoon, the Umeå Jazz Festival arrives full of warmth to portend a season of bonhomie and deliver in the meantime plenty of great music. Now in its 59th edition, the festival - established by Lars Lystedt in 1968 and boasting over the years...

The pianist Kris Davis and her trio with Robert Hurst on the double bass and Johnathan Blake on the drums has put in the hours since the release of their acclaimed debut Run the Gauntlet, which means in airports and hotel lobbies and all those other spaces seemingly designed to distress and disorientate as well as up on stage where they might feel more at home. Lost in Geneva nods to travel mishaps and apparitional cities but also to the camaraderie that might be forged through shared life on the road...

The opening scene (or cold open) of the third episode of Big Apple introduces a new character and a new situation which deepens our understanding of detective Michael Mooney as played by Ed O'Neill. He is visiting his sister Lois who is in a wheelchair and we come to learn has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis which is commonly referred to...