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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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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
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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