DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Spontaneous combustion
Memoirs of a great jazz drummer fizz with the sense of improvisatory freedom inherent in his music, says CHRIS SEARLE
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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
An Uncommon Music for the Common Man
by Edwin Prevost
(Copula Publications, £20)
ANYONE who has heard Eddie Prevost play drums live or on record knows that his music is an amalgam of passion, intellect and artistry — blood and brain fused with a relentless practical and imaginative invention.
He is a fine writer too and this “polemical memoir,” as he calls it, is an ensemble of autobiographical narratives, thoughts on contemporary musical culture and reflections on the nature of free improvisation.
In the latter, he is a true pioneer and believer in “the principal maxim of searching” to ground his music.
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