Geoff Dyer/Curios – review

Vortex Jazz Club, LondonThe Vortex Jazz Club has begun a programme of collaborations between authors and jazz musicians called WordPlay. It could hardly have picked a more apposite guest for the scheme's debut, since novelist and columnist Geoff Dyer is a jazz fan to the core.Wisely, the participants didn't attempt to merge their contributions. Dyer read semi-fictionalised episodes from his acclaimed But Beautiful novel, and pianist Tom Cawley's trio, Curios, played short sets in between. The v...

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