Marcus Miller – review

Cheltenham jazz festivalA circus big top felt like just the right place to hear that breathtaking trapeze-artist of the bass guitar, Marcus Miller – the Cheltenham Jazz Festival having vacated its worthy town hall annexes in favour of an upbeat camp of bright marquees this year. But Miller's high-energy, 90-minute Saturday show was far from being merely the usual fast solos and crunching drum breaks of so many celebrity jazz-funk gigs. A svengali to Miles Davis on his best late-period a...

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