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  Charles Lloyd & the Marvels: Tone Poem review – heady ideas from a celebrated jazz elder

  Charles Lloyd & the Marvels: Tone Poem review – heady ideas from a celebrated jazz elder(Blue Note)The third album in this partnership sees the tenor saxophonist deftly occupied in takes on Ornette Coleman, Leonard Cohen and the Beach Boys An original improviser … Charles Lloyd. Photograph: Blue Note

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  The 10 best contemporary music albums of 2020

  The 10 best contemporary music albums of 2020We survey the best albums from the experimental edges of classical, jazz and more, from ambient sludge to blissful electronica * More on the best culture of 2020

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  Pianist Keith Jarrett unlikely to perform again after two strokes

  Pianist Keith Jarrett unlikely to perform again after two strokes. Pair of strokes in 2018 have partially paralysed American musician, who can now only play with one hand

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  Landgren & Lundgren: Kristallen review – tranquil Nordic jazz

  Landgren & Lundgren: Kristallen review – tranquil Nordic jazz. (ACT)

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  Elliot Galvin Live in Paris, at Fondation Louis Vuitton review – pianist of a mercurial mind

  Elliot Galvin Live in Paris, at Fondation Louis Vuitton review – pianist of a mercurial mind(Edition) Unaccompanied, Galvin brings surprising runs and whiplash sounds from his instrument, recorded at a new Paris museum

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  Robin Hatch: Robin Hatch review – discover a new grammar for piano

  Robin Hatch: Robin Hatch review – discover a new grammar for piano(Self-released) For her third album this year, the Canadian composer continues to defy genres by creating a bold new grammar for piano

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  Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Not Far from Here review – Bowie and Miles in the ECM ballpark

  (ECM)Clever, thoughtful jazz from the cooly virtuosic composer-pianist gives the legendary ECM label another gem to celebrate on its 50th anniversary. Munich’s ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music), the legendary label whose remit – just for starters – has embraced jazz-warped Gregorian chanting, Nordic folksongs, Euro-Asian dialogues, and Keith Jarrett’s long-idolised Köln Concert, celebrates its 50th anniversary in November. Big shows in New York, London, and Brussels show the world’s respect fo

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  The word is out: Val McDermid selects Britain's 10 most outstanding LGBTQ writers

  The bestselling crime writer has nominated her favourite queer and trans authors and poets as part of a showcase celebrating the best in British writing. My first novel was published in 1987. It was the first British crime novel with a lesbian detective. The only route to publication was via an independent feminist publisher. Back then, there were a few radical bookshops that stocked titles like mine. But getting mainstream shops to stock it was an uphill struggle. Finding representations of que

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  Keith Jarrett: La Fenice review – dazzling spontaneity from 2006

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  Geri Allen obituary

  Geri Allen, the jazz pianist, composer and educator, who has died of cancer aged 60, was one of those. My first memory of hearing Allen live came in London in 1989, alongside the bassist Charlie Haden and the drummer Paul Motian – two of the most empathic partners the jazz scene could then offer a newcomer with something original to say. The pianist Keith Jarrett had been in town the previous month, and Allen’s performance – reimagining the methods of piano innovators such as Thelonious Monk,

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