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Compelling ruminations on casualties of drug addiction from Bley, Swallow and Sheppard
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
Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard
Trios
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Andando el Tiempo
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THE CURSE of drug addiction is one of the tragedies of jazz, manifold during the postwar epoch and beyond, when Bop broke away from the era of Swing and brought with it many shapes of jazz rebellion.
So Carla Bley's ruminative 2016 album Andando el Tiempo, a musical narrative of the struggle to overcome addiction, has a particular pertinence in the story of a century of the music.
From the beginning, the octogenarian Bley has seen herself as a big-band composer. She formed the Jazz Composers' Guild Orchestra with Michael Mantler in 1964 and the era-defining Liberation Music Orchestra with bassist Charlie Haden in 1969.
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