50 great moments in jazz: Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun

A trailblazing piece of free jazz that arrived in the revolutionary year of 1968 – and later found a fan in Bill ClintonAs this year's London Jazz festival drew to an end yesterday (21 November), my thoughts turned to how vehemently the event's diversity would have been resisted not so many years ago. The festival's closing weekend might have been dominated by Sonny Rollins – a surviving colossus from a circle that included Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis –...

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