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A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
Transmuting Dreams
Ingrid Laubrock
Sleepthief (Intakt CD146)
Anti-House (Intakt CD 173)
Ingrid Laubrock Octet
Zurich Concert (Intakt CD 221)
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
MATT KERR takes stock of a night of by-elections, where the long repeated warnings for Labour and the political class remain stubbornly unheeded
Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Despite forming most of Britain’s trade union membership, women continue to endure harassment, inequality and minimal support for their sex-based rights, warns VALERIE COULTAS
THE GERMAN saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock was born in Stadtlohn in 1970 and went against the grain by listening intently to free jazz from an early age. She moved to Berlin after leaving school and then crossed to London, busking with her alto horn on the underground, where she found her first audiences.
She took her first formal lessons from the ex-Jazz Messengers tenorist, Jean Toussaint, before returning to Germany and finding another teacher in the Brooklyn-born ex-Miles Davis sideman Dave Liebman.
Then, with such inspired tutelage behind her, she came back to London and studied music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was strongly influenced by Brazilian musicians.
In 1997 she cut her first album, Who Is It on the Candid label, and also joined the F-IRE Collective which caused her to broaden her sonic palette and embrace west African music.
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