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The Arts Intel Report

Django Bates' Belovèd

March 9, 2020
Venloer Str. 40, 50672 Köln, Germany

The Hamlet of Britain’s jazz stage, this protean pianist and composer shifts from clown prince to musing poet not only from project to project, but often from measure to measure. While his ECM-labeled trio with Danish drummer Peter Bruun and Swedish bassist Petter Eldh clearly leans toward the pensive side, it doesn’t lack for antic enjambment. —E.E.