Jazz Voice – review

Barbican, London"If you're experiencing jazz for the first time," said Victoria Wood, "don't panic. I was at the rehearsal, and they never went far from a tune." The comedian and jazz enthusiast, hosting the London jazz festival's opening show, got an easy laugh there, because there must have been many in the full house with an aversion to jazz's more atonal forms. For them, Jazz Voice was a reassuringly mainstream affair that gave priority to 100 years of classic songcraft, entrusting it to ei...

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