Han Bennink – review

Vortex, LondonThe kind of free-improvised jazz that used to drive people screaming for the exits has been celebrated in a big way around London's Dalston in recent days. Eager, mixed-generation crowds packed Cafe Oto last week for rambunctious sax and brass chorales and two-drumkit thunderings by the German sax legend Peter Brötzmann. Two days later, at the neighbouring Vortex, came the theatrical 69-year-old Dutch percussionist Han Bennink, an old Brötzmann sparring partner who has also worke...

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