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Jazz albums: Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981
Creative juices flow as black musicians confer
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
Marion Brown and Dave Burrell
Live at the Black Musicians’ Conference, 1981
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WOULD the founding pioneers of jazz in New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century ever have thought that a future nucleus of their music would be created in Vilnius, Lithuania, more than a century later?
That is where one of the music’s hottest labels is based and among their newest releases is a marvellous 1981 encounter between alto saxophonist Marion Brown and pianist Dave Burrell at a black musicians’ conference.
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