London Jazz Festival: Curtain up

The spectacular and ever-expanding London Jazz Festival kicks off today and, as usual, this highlight of the UK jazz calendar promises to be both an opportunity to hear some of the world's finest players, and to hang out in venues seething with audiences thinking, feeling and talking jazz. This dynamic music is often treated as an afterthought by the mainstream media, or a strange and fetishistic pursuit for a handful of deranged anoraks, so a city-wide celebration of it (running for 10 days in ...

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