MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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Fyah in the soul
Jazz tubist THEON CROSS talks to Chris Searle about ‘the vibrations of human connection’ inspiring his latest album
Innovator: Theon Cross
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
LONDON-BORN tuba virtuoso Theon Cross has a powerful grasp of his instrument’s jazz ancestry and you can hear it on the rampant bass pulse of the rumbustiously beautiful album Fyah.
He started his musical journey listening to sousaphone players in New Orleans brass bands such as the Dirty Dozen, playing along to the basslines on their CDs.
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