10 NOVEMBER 1990, page 53

Jazz

A question of place Martin Gayford L ast year a young American saxophon- ist remarked to me that jazz `used to be a local thing, but it's not any more'. Which is a truth both......

Pop Music

Harking back Marcus Berkmann A s one of the more ephemeral art- forms — nestling neatly between perform- ance art and origami — pop music is not really supposed to have a past,......