The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Nicole Mitchell and Mark Sanders
Cafe Oto, London E8
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CALIFORNIAN flautist Nicole Mitchell shows off her classical training and a superb technical mastery in her opening solo set which welds her jazz soul with a restless capacity to improvise.
Her notes — sounds of sadness, defiance, joy and hope — come as if from birds which have crossed the Atlantic through middle passages and contemporary migrations.
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