Django Bates 50th Birthday | Jazz review

Kings Place, LondonHowever seriously Django Bates is taken – as a composer of time-warping, romantically fragile jazz, but also of contemporary classical music – serious self-regard isn't in his nature. The British star may have been celebrating his 50th birthday with the latest edition of his Human Chain ensemble, but in the mix of frenetic glee and deadpan surrealism he displayed, he was almost a dead ringer for the Django Bates of 25 years ago.The Human Chain rhythm section of bassist Mik...

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