DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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German pianist GEORG GRAEWE of the Frisque Concordance Quartet talks to Chris Searle about their double album Distinct Machinery
FREE SPIRIT: Georg Graewe
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
THE FREE-IMPROVISING pianist Georg Graewe was born in Bochum in 1956, where his parents ran a pub just 50 miles away from the British Forces Radio Station in Cologne.
At that time “it was the entire, mostly British rock scene I was listening to,” he says.”The Beatles, Stones, Who, Georgie Fame and later Cream and Hendrix. I bugged my parents into buying me a guitar when I was eight and started on piano at 12.”
At 15, he joined a rock band but “they already had a good guitarist, so I got stuck with piano.” Three years later, he formed his first quintet, playing a kind of free jazz which involved written parts as well.
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