Tortoise/Cluster | Pop review

London jazz festivalChicago's Tortoise might nominally be a "rock" band, but it comes as no surprise to see them closing this year's London jazz festival. When they emerged in the mid-1990s at the forefront of a movement unsatisfactorily dubbed "post-rock", they started to creep on to the radar of arts council-funded projects, particularly jazz bills. Their music has some of the superficial qualities of jazz – it is instrumental, rhythmically complex, harmonically rich and features the co...

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