MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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A native of Minneapolis, legendary pianist Craig Taborn talks to Chris Searle about his reactions to the George Floyd murder and to the impact of the pandemic on US jazz musicians
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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
CRAIG TABORN, born in Minneapolis in 1970, is one of the most protean and multi-faceted of jazz pianists.
“I grew up with jazz in the home,” he told me. “My father was a psychologist and university professor who played piano for his own enjoyment and listened to his vinyl collection of Horace Silver and Cannonball Adderley.
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