Later on the show, we’ll be getting into the swing of things with some old friends. Bassist Sylvain Gagnon, guitarist Antoine Richard and drummer Tobe Kushiator will be here to tell us about a new album that focuses on “jazz manouche” a genre popularised by the Romani jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and a group of fellow musicians in Paris from the 1930s to the 1950s. In jazz manouche, the guitarist uses a form of strumming known as “the pump” to add a swinging percussion. In music in general, percussion can be provided by a range of hitting, crashing, shaking, and scraping movements. For many, it remains the simplest and most accessible form of music-making.

Ruth Asawa once said that her primary concerns in life were art and art education: “I have devoted most of my life to the study and practice of art. I have made doing it part of my life…. Doing is living.” “Doing Is Living”, at the David Zwirner gallery until February 22nd, is her first solo exhibition in Greater China. It includes several of the abstract multi-lobed looped-wire sculptures for which she’s best known, as well as works on paper.