MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
‘I feel more elated listening to it now’
Jazz saxophonist EVAN PARKER tells Chris Searle what's so special about ground-breaking jazz recording Karyobin
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
KARYOBIN are imaginary birds said to live in paradise and it's also the title of a1968 recording, now reissued, which went on to become a free-jazz classic.
The quintet who made the album were drummer John Stevens, bassist Dave Holland, guitarist Derek Bailey, trumpeter and flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler and Evan Parker, one of the truly powerful and original jazz horn players.
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