Paul Morley showing off ... Polar Bear

Paul Morley delves into experimental jazz with Mercury-nominated Shoreditch quintet Polar Bear and Florida-born pianist Brad Mehldau It probably helps that you like jazz when it comes to swashbuckling new albums by Polar Bear (Peepers – quick-witted, feisty, melancholy) and Brad Mehldau (the two-CD Highway Rider – heartbreaking, tense, rapturous east coast-agile). It helps in fact if when you think of jazz you think of the immense trip it took from Armstrong to Parker to Miles to O...

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