London jazz festival: the grand nationals

As the Scottish and French jazz orchestras descend on the capital for this year's London jazz festival, John Fordham asks if it's about time the host nation followed suitIf you'd been hijacked to another galaxy some time around 1925, right in the middle of the Jazz Age, and only made it back to London this month, you might conclude the jazz tide had indeed swept all other kinds of music away. From 12-21 November, the 18th London jazz festival takes over the capital. It not only hosts that small...

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