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Radical to his very roots
CHRIS CALLAGHAN talks to Chris Searle about her late brother Paul Rutherford, whose innovatory sounds are captured on a new album
Left-field innovator: Paul Rutherford
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
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SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
IT’S 12 years since the death of that singular and innovative free-jazz trombonist Paul Rutherford (1940-2007), a lifelong socialist and Morning Star supporter.
Now a revelatory album new album, In Backward Times, reveals his particular genius and the groundbreaking multisonic approach he brought to his instrument.
Talking to his sister Chris Callaghan about their post-war south London childhood, it’s clear how their family life forged Rutherford’s music.
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