LondonJazz reader Tony Dudley-Evans has posted a very thoughtful comment. Tony discusses the sly assertion by an Independent journalist that Radiohead had alienated the teenagers at Reading by “playing jazz”. (Here’s the link)

I ealise that journalist Nick Hasted has previous form in using “jazz” as a term of mild derogation. Try this, for example, discussing gangsta-rap, from Hasted’s book on Eminem:

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“Like jazz, it was another ghetto “communication of art”, of ideas of violent rage, rebellion and injustice….”

Such are the crass pre-conceptions some people have about this music!