Jazz Preview: In tune with Larkin the jazz critic

Hull jazz festival, in July, included the launch of Philip Larkin's Jazz, a set of CDs which has won widespread approval among those who share his taste in the idiom he loved and loathed with equal fervour.

Now, in this autumn's J-Night series , there will be an evening entitled "Trombone Poetry and All What Jazz?" in which poet, composer and trombonist Paul Taylor joins forces with the Hull bassist, Dave Ellis, and other locally based musicians to play pieces inspired or provoked by Larkin's opinions as a jazz critic.

Taylor, who is currently poet-in-residence at the Vortex club in London, will supply a spoken commentary as well as play.

And what promises to be a particularly intriguing evening takes place at Hull Truck Theatre on November 28.

The J-Night season begins on September 26 with Burden of Paradise with Snake Davis and Helen Watson, followed by the Venezuelan flamenco

dancer Carla Soto Marrero (October 28), the Tommy Evans Orchestra (October 29) and Eclectic4 launching their new album on October 30.