Joshua Jaswon Octet: Polar Waters review – a soaring blend of jazz and poetry | Jazz
London-born alto saxophonist Joshua Jaswon was so appalled by Brexit that he moved to Berlin to pursue his ambitions as band leader and composer. In 2020 he delivered Silent Sea, a moving commentary on ecology and populism, played with gusto by his pan-European eight-piece and incorporating poems from a collection by the Scottish poet Jackie Kay. Polar Waters follows a similar course, being centred on oceanic themes, its music entwined with assorted modern poems given voice by the brilliant Dutch singer Anna Serierse.It’s…