DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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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
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
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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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