Jazz: Jack DeJohnette/Arild Andersen, QEH/Purcell Room

Whether it was the windswept trio bending Jingle Bells for trumpet, accordion and plastic-can percussion on Hungerford Bridge, or the 10 Japanese baritone saxists honking their way around Foyle's bookshop, or American drummer Jack DeJohnette and South African singer Sibongile Khumalo enrapturing a QEH audience, the last weekend of the 2008 London jazz festival kept up the heat it has been generating all week. DeJohnette's and Khumalo's radiant and harmonious Friday set was one of the event's big...

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