London Jazz Festival: saxophone shows its star appeal

Steve Coleman, Steve Williamson and Chris Potter reveal instrument's depths and variationsIn deference to the ways of the world, the London Jazz Festival might have cannily foregrounded pop-oriented singers in its opening days – but the real star has been that most voice-like of jazz instruments, the saxophone.The American Steve Coleman (like Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman before him, a fearless revolutionary in harmony, rhythm and melody), his gifted British disciple Steve Williamson, and...

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