Paying tribute to the late bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik in a 2022 live recording, this European jazz quartet turns an understated 1961 single into a thundering, hourlong rave-up.
Festival Météo(Various Venues in Mulhouse, France, 23 to 26 August, 2023. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Musho: Alexander Hawkins and Sofia Jernberg. Photo credit: Alicia Gardès The focus of the Météo Festival is on the experimental areas of improvised music and electronica. Founded in 1983 as “Jazz à Mulhouse” it no longer describes itself as a jazz festival –…