GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Horns of plenty
CHRIS SEARLE gets blown away by the brass on offer at a vintage year for the London Jazz Festival
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
Apart from the great Archie Shepp and his Attica Blues Orchesta at the Barbican, the opener at the Royal Festival Hall had to be one of the most inspirational of the festival.
South African flugelhorn maestro Hugh Masekela and veteran US pianist Larry Willis, who've been playing together off and on since their early days on the New York jazz scene from 1960, was one of the most moving jazz concerts I've been to.
The duo played tunes associated with their early heroes like Clifford Brown, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Satchmo.
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