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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
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
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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