The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
The Camilla George Quartet The Lescar, Sheffield 4/5
WALKING down to the Lescar pub in Hunter’s Bar in Sheffield, the TV screens in the front rooms that I pass are full of the egocentric prancing and formulaic sonics of the Brit Awards.
Luckily, I’m going to hear a very different music in an entirely contrary setting — the back room, intimate session of the marvellous Camilla George Quartet, performing tunes from their debut album Isang — the word for “journey” in southeast Nigeria where the saxophonist was born.
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