MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Pianist LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST talks to Chris Searle about the unifying force inspiring his latest album
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
ONE of jazz’s prime pianists, who through his musical life has absorbed many US genres, from swing, gospel and stride to hip-hop and free improvisation, Lafayette Gilchrist was a part of epochal saxophonist David Murray’s quartet for 13 years.
Born in Washington DC in 1967, he started to play piano when, at the age of 17, he came to live in Baltimore.
“Duke Ellington and Theolonius Monk were, and remain my musical inspirations,” he declares, and his years with Murray “affirmed and helped to inform what I was already working on and the direction I was going in music.”
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