GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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A delectable duo
Chris Searle on Jazz
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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
TRIOS, quartets and quintets are common enough jazz formations, but a committed piano saxophone duo that has regularly performed and recorded together during four years of hectic and grooving musicianship, each partner also playing in many different bands, is not a common twinship, particularly if this twosome has also produced three outstanding albums during that time.
But such is the achievement of two young men — pianist Andrew McCormack and saxophonist Jason Yarde.
McCormack’s music began at home, where his parents brought him a record which included Miles Davis’s So What.
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