MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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‘What’s happening in daily life drives my music, my emotions and passions’
WAYNE ESCOFFERY tells Chris Searle what it’s like to be back from US in his native Walthamstow and the challenges on both sides of the pond
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
WAYNE ESCOFFERY, one of jazz’s most luminous saxophonists, was born in Walthamstow, north-east London, in 1975, but emigrated to Connecticut with his mother when he was eight.
He tells me: “Having left at such a young age, I didn’t feel very connected to London — I felt more connected to the British/Jamaican cultural traditions, introduced to me by my mother, grandparents and close family.”
In the US, his mentor became the great alto saxophonist, Jackie McLean.
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