CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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CHRIS SEARLE on Jazz
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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Dee Byrne and Entropi
Moment Frozen
(Whirlwind Recordings)
THE Concise Oxford Dictionary defines “entropy” as “a measure of the rate of transfer of information in a message,” while the great London bassist Barry Guy in the sleeve notes of his album Oort-Entropy adds that such a transfer is “imperative, changing the body but keeping the characteristics intact.”
Does it sound like the process of jazz?
Perhaps the south London altosaxophonist Dee Byrne and her bandmates know best, since they call their band Entropi.
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