GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
‘I enjoy the company of women musicians. It creates a different, supportive atmosphere on stage’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Rwanda-born jazz vocalist INEZA
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
THE Rwanda-born singer Ineza, says of her striking and beautifully sung first album Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories: “Its unifying theme is championing the works of female composers, singers and songwriters in the jazz world.”
Her accompanying band are all women, with the exception of pianist Alex Webb: bassist Charlie Pyne, Katie Patterson on drums, trombonist Rosie Turton and tenor saxophonist Maddy Coombs. There is also an all-women string quartet of violinists Johanna Burnheart and Annalise Lam, with Julia dos Reis on viola and cellist Miranda Lewis-Brown.
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