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‘I couldn't play publicly with black musicians, only in their homes’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with clarinetist Sammy Rimington
Sammy Rimington, center, at jazz funeral for Danny Barker, New Orleans, 1994. He is flanked by clarinetists Chris Burke at left and Dr Michael White at right
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
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TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
STRANGE to think that on Dean Street, up and alongside this Soho basement, Karl Marx walked to the reading room of the British Museum early every morning, contemplating Das Kapital. Shelley lived around the corner and just through St Anne’s Court almost opposite, William Blake was born and lived his early years.
And along the parallel road, Frith Street, there is Ronnie Scott’s, where in the 1960s the greatest US jazz musicians had opened up London with their sounds.
Now I find myself listening to the clarinet and alto saxophone of 82-year-old Sammy Rimington, who I first heard 64 years ago in the side hall of the Elm Park Hotel, eastwards on the District Line, when he was an 18-year-old debutant in Ken Colyer’s New Orleans Band, as I worked taking coats in the cloakroom of my local St Louis Jazz Club.
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