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There is some "real jazz" on this week but there is also some excellent jazztingedmusic that is wellworthchecking out.
First a trip into the country and the exemplary acoustic piano trio of Sweden's Bobo Stenson.
They are at the Edge Arts Centre in Much Wenlock on Thursday.
Stenson is an archetypalECMrecords pianist (and I mean that in all the best senses) - he is as likely to adapt a piece by the classical composer Alban Berg or the Tango master Astor Piazzolla to his ends as he is an Don Cherry or Ornette Coleman tune.
He does all those things on his latest ECM disc, called Cantando, which is currently receiving rave reviews...