London jazz festival – review

Various venuesThe fight through teeming crowds to get to Herbie Hancock's Royal Festival Hall show suggested that the 2010 London jazz festival was breaking all records – until I pondered whether the Lord Mayor's South Bank fireworks might have a bearing on it. Just the same, the improbably 70-year-old Hancock unleashed his own fireworks in a two-and-a-half-hour single set on Saturday.Hancock brought a sextet to cover a world-pop repertoire that had been created on his Imagine Project albu...

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