The Necks | Jazz review

Barbican, LondonChris Abrahams carefully adjusted the music stand on the grand piano before the Necks' Barbican performance – a surreal gesture, since no scrap of sheet music is ever seen at the Australian trio's gigs. The Necks have done the apparently impossible: building a sizeable mainstream audience for music that is not only entirely improvised, but in which each piece runs to the length of an entire set.The big difference between the Necks and many all-improv groups is that they stick t...

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