MATTHEW HALSALL
Making jazz more accessible to casual ears
he shape of British jazz has changed dramatically over the last 15 years; both in terms of its sound and the breadth of its appeal. This summer saw Ezra Collective pulling huge crowds at Glastonbury, for example, and Gilles Peterson’s We Out Here festival, with its usual jazz heavy line-up, has graduated to a bigger site this year to cope with demand. Myriad factors and many contributors are due credit for