GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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CHRIS SEARLE enjoys this year’s London Jazz Festival, a brilliant amalgam of youth and experience from Britain and all over the world
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
SOUTH AFRICA’S skies hover over the South Bank of the Thames as septuagenarian Louis Moholo-Moholo’s Cape drums fire the 23-piece Dedication Orchestra.
Their heartfelt set is a blessing for the great South African jazz exiles the Blue Notes who arrived in London from apartheid in 1964.
Some of their original and revered contemporaries, from pianist Keith Tippett, tenorist Evan Parker, altoist Ray Warleigh and trumpeter Henry Lowther, are still here with other younger virtuosi like saxophonists Jason Yarde and Julian Arguelles and bassist John Edwards from later generations adding their own committed brilliance.
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