John Fordham: Courtney Pine's lecture was music to my ears

In my last blog from the London Jazz festival, I wound up suggesting that jazz and the spoken word seem to have something of an uneasy relationship.However, last week's Barbican show by Courtney Pine cast a different slant on that view, since Pine talked to his enthusiastic audience a great deal, and the volume of the response suggested that they were pretty happy about that.The grounds for my less-said-the-better position were that improvising instincts and techniques incline jazz artists to tr...

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