MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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A deeply throbbing melodism
CHRIS SEARLE reviews Eddie Gomez, Binker Golding, Elliot Galvin, Gunter Baby Sommer and Raymond MacDonald
TELEPATHIC: Binker Golding
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
AT SOHO’S Pizza Express, Eddie Gomez, Puerto Rican-born bassist of the Bill Evans Trio and a Dizzy Gillespie alumnus, dug into a veteran’s groove with his swinging Italian bandmates.
His springing, resonant strings bounced into Cheeks, his tribute to Gillespie and the beautifully etched, deeply throbbing melodism of the lingering tune Ariana stayed long in the mind.
Among the host of tomes in Foyles’s West End bookshop, saxophonist Binker Golding and pianist Elliot Galvin played together with such an intimacy it’s as if both musicians were inside each others’ instruments, so telepathic was their improvising union.
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