New talent? The context is the Young Irish jazzer contest

The last major figure of the bebop era departs this vale of tears.

An antidote to casual listening, surely

Club dates in Wales for the globe trotting Kyle Eastwood and his crack band

Can't wait for summer and this when it comes around. But Hans Groiner, should he be around to comment - typically fatuously - speaking in an Austrian accent and looking a bit like Richard Clayderman is perplexed. "A rhombus is a flat, four-sided geometric shape (a quadrilateral) where all four sides are equal in length. But there are only three of them."

As anyone who has read Brad Mehldau's brilliantly vivid and honest memoir Formation will know, the pianist is a fine prose writer as well as everything else. Check out the American's Substack for a new essay that I spotted earlier today which is pretty thought provoking. I think it went up recently. He takes on a few sacred cows and describes his recent gigs playing in New York and hanging out and how he is distrustful of spending too much time on things like Instagram and Facebook.