GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Musical union of three jazz troubadours
An improvised moment full of invented melody and collective now-times sound drawn from a century of jazz tradition, writes CHRIS SEARLE
Alexander Hawkins Trio at the Jazz South Radar Sessions 2021
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DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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
Alexander Hawkins, Neil Charles and Stephen Davis
Cafe Oto, Dalston
BACK again to Cafe Oto’s stone floors, iron pillars and a living artistic heritage of the one-time factory that for decades produced Reeves’s paints and brushes for generations of young artists and child painters, now a house of revolutionary sounds and startling and audacious musicianship.
A scintillating opening: Alex Hawkins’s founding, compelling, chirping piano notes, Neil Charles’s stirring bass bow-work and drummer Stephen Davis’s tinkling brushes provoking the silence of Cafe Oto’s spellbound listeners.
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