JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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Drummer MOSES BOYD tells Chris Searle why the album Alive in the East? is an authentic reflection of the direction jazz is taking in this country
MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
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GROWING up in south London, the musical tastes of drummer Moses Boyd’s family were nothing if not eclectic.
“My parents played lots of gospel and soul,” he tells me, “and as a teenager I listened to hip hop, garage and grime.
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