The American music website Pitchfork is the journal of record for alternative America. It has became this generation’s Rolling Stone, for both good and ill. Long before it was bought by Condé Nast, however, it was famous for a disastrous jazz review in which the site’s founder chose to employ what he appeared to believe was the vernacular of a jazz ‘cat’ of the early 1960s.
Michael Hann
Gig of the year: Ezra Collective, at the Royal Albert Hall, reviewed
Two overwhelming hours of open-hearted and ferociously insistent music

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