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‘It's true people's music’
ALAN DEIN tells Chris Searle why he's just brought out a unique compilation of East End Yiddisher jazz
The front sleeve Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London’s East End, 1920s-1950s
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
MANY of the finest and most memorable records have been defined by their sleeves and that’s strikingly exemplified with Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London’s East End, 1920s-1950s.
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