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A couple of weeks ago Downbeat published their August issue and with it their 74th annual critics poll of the best in jazz. The list is a lengthy undertaking in so far as it contains 62 categories, which invite critics to vote for a mix of established figures and rising stars. The headlines for this 74th edition of the...

The vibraphonist Patricia Brennan says that she first heard Sylvie Courvoisier play 'long before I ever imagined we might share a bandstand. What struck me immediately was that she approached the piano not simply as a harmonic instrument, but as an entire physical world'. Courvoisier's piano playing certainly refutes the adage, but when it comes to physical proximity the contemporary...

For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...