Your letter writer was pleased to see a five-star jazz album of the month review (12 January), but failed to say whether he had enjoyed it. Jakob Bro’s Taking Turns is a languid, clever and even pretty album. The big problem is, it does not swing. At all. It must be an age thing when I bang on about 1957 being the best year ever for jazz recordings.
Vic Grayson
Programme secretary, Bournemouth Big Band Swing and Jazz Club
• You quote Liz Truss as saying that “the leftwing media of Britain, including the BBC … the Times and the Guardian and the Financial Times, do not like free speech” (Report, 13 January). Could this be the same Liz Truss who recently sent a “cease and desist” letter to stop the PM expressing his views about her government’s economic performance (9 January)?
Gabriel Partos
London
