The trumpet never hides. All swagger and sass, it is the boldest instrument in jazz, with the searing sound that clears all else out of its way. It can blaze and wail, shout joy or rage, then croon ...
It’s also a welcome reminder that Verlaine wasn’t influenced by guitarists so much as he was free jazz saxophonists – John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and suchlike – and it’s that logic he pursues across ...