Culture: Jazz (Albums)
Highly strung
Music - Natalie Brierley on the plucking excellence of ukuleles
Class conscious - Andrew Martin praises the pioneers of revivalist jazz
Jazz revivalism - a quasi-Nordic look involving beards and Arran jumpers
Sax and the city
Jazz - Richard Cook on a young musician making his mark in Chicago
Junk bonds. Richard Cook on the dismal life and mysterious death of a jazz icon
Deep in a Dream: the long night of Chet Baker James Gavin Chatto & Windus, 430pp, £20 ISBN 070116381X
Ghost trane
Music - Richard Cook on the spiritual father of jazz improvisation
King Henry
Lounge music - Stephen Smith takes the score of the man who brought jazz to the movies
Miles too popular
Music - Richard Cook cuts the coolest jazzman down to size
Top of the Pops
Louis Armstrong is the irreducible essence of 20th-century music. Richard Cookcelebrates the life and talent of the grand old man of jazz
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Music - Richard Cook on the wit and wisdom of Robert Wyatt
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