Letters: An awful racket? No, jazz is a joy

While Les Garner is probably not the only Guardian reader to regard jazz as "an awful racket", his suggestion that the music is "played and sung by those who can neither play nor sing in tune" hints at either aberrant critical faculties on his part or limited exposure to the sublime musicianship to be found in jazz (Letters, 6 October).For a beginner's guide to playing, lesson one, he could check out Stéphane Grappelli duetting with Yehudi Menuhin: only one of the pair sounds as if he is "for e...

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