Harry Beckett Tribute – review

Vortex, LondonOn the late, great Barbadian trumpeter Harry Beckett's birthday – 30 May – a score of musicians came to pay their respects. Beckett, who died last year after an almost six-decade career in UK jazz, was at home with everything from improv to dance music. But he brought a lightness of touch and infectious optimism to it all, even in the most austere of sonic adventures. A raggedly upbeat evening caught that personality, and the raft of changes in jazz thinking Beckett had witness...

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