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‘I am a jazz musician who happened to be born in Venezuela’
Chris Searle speaks with Venezuelan pianist LUIS PERDOMO
Luis Perdomo
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
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TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
LUIS PERDOMO, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1971, is one of the great jazz pianists of the Americas. An integral part of the quartet led by Puerto Rican alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon, with bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Henry Cole, he features powerfully on the quartet’s new album, Musica de Las Americas.
I asked him about his musical life and the insurgent sounds of the album.
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