F-ire festival – review

Kings Place, LondonThe closing concert of the F-ire collective's annual Rhythmic Frontiers festival was given by Django Bates's trio. And, even if Bates was operating in his most jazz-specific mode by reworking Charlie Parker's 60-year-old music, and F-ire ordinarily has a sweeping world-music remit, in which contemporary rhythmic experiments are about the only unifying element, it felt an appropriate choice. Bates's originality and dynamism – notably as part of the charismatic 80s collective ...

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