MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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Bracing big band sound from quality quintet
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 TRIPLE-HORNED dinosaur Triceratops is also the name of a three-horn quintet led by 42-year-old Chicago trombonist John Yao.
First inspired by the trombone artistry of JJ Johnson, Frank Rosolino and Fred Wesley, after graduating from Indiana State University Yao played trombone in the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Triceratops is a very different proposition. “The alto/soprano sax, tenor sax and trombone formation allowed me to get a big sound with just three horns,” he says. “Altoist Billy Drewes inspires me with his freewheeling, open approach, while tenorist John Irabagon is such a creative musician who structures his solos with an unlimited vocabulary.
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