DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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MIGUEL ZENON tells Chris Searle why his latest album pays tribute to one of the great Puerto Rican singers
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
“IT WASN'T until I started to write my own music and conceptualise what I wanted to do as a musician that I started to consider my musical roots,” says the beautifully fluid alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon.
Paying tribute: Miguel Zenon (Pic: Michael Hoefner/Creative Commons)
“I wanted to strike a balance between the Puerto Rican folk and the jazz traditions, which have a lot in common.”
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