While I agree with Paul Bream (Letters, 31 July) about the marginalising of jazz in the Guardian, give a thought to the paucity of attention given to the blues. At a time when there are a plethora of young musicians making new and interesting music within the blues genre, the lack of attention is staggering. Even when a blues album is reviewed it is placed within the pop section.
Roger Whitmore
Bath
• At last! Recognition from a fellow sufferer – someone else who feels Ludovico Einaudi is the musical equivalent of watching paint dry (G2, 2 August).
Grazina McCarthy
London
• Fiona Sturges refers to Sean Henry’s sculpture off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea looking out to sea and the “watery sunset” (Will public art recover from Tina Turner’s giant head?, Journal, 3 August). “Sunrise”, I think, when looking out over the North Sea.
Donald Chroston
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
• Good to see another Covent Garden ballet picture (Eyewitness, 5 August). Happily there was also one on Saturday, which was a re-run of the shot we had enjoyed last Tuesday. Are you perhaps planning to have one every day? Or as a Monday morning replacement for Theresa May leaving church?
David Ward
Macclesfield, Cheshire
• “UK reclaims place as second-largest arms exporter after 2018 sales of £14bn” (31 July). Presumably also the second largest contributor to death in foreign wars?
Michael Bassey
Newark, Nottinghamshire
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