Brecon jazz festival | Jazz review

Various venues, BreconJazz may thrive in the urban jungle, but it can sound fresh and wild in the country, too. Now under the wing of Hay Festivals, Brecon Jazz has been reborn as an event to rival the better European festivals, wrapped neatly round a charming town in the Welsh hillsides.Matthew Halsall's band play the kind of late-60s modal jazz made fashionable by the Five Corners Quintet and Nicola Conte, but he has a secret weapon: Rachael Gladwin's harp. She solos confidently and adds a g...

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