MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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Veteran tenor saxophonist ALAN SKIDMORE talks to Chris Searle about his tribute album to John Coltrane
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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
THE tenor saxophone is the lifelong companion of septuagenarian Alan Skidmore. His father, a prime tenor saxophonist himself, gave him one when he was 14 and encouraged him to practise long notes to develop a sound and scales to develop a technique.
He turned professional when he was just 16.
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