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Jazz and Cricket: An Unlikely Combination
Matthew Wright's compendium vividly evokes the links between the music and the sport
Frank Parr, trombonist and wicket keeper, leads the Ravers from the field
JOHN FLINT explores the Appleby Blue development, winner of the Stirling prize 2025
GORDON PARSONS enjoys the wealth of wisdom and the clarity of expression from a dialogue between Chomsky and Mujica
GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck
WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb
RITA DI SANTO points out the social experience of exploitation and oppression that inform the popular winners at this year’s festival
AS A jazz lover and fanatical cricketer who played his last match two years ago at the age of 76, I have often mused on times when the two pursuits seem to have been in sync with each other.
Was it when Jim Laker’s 19 wickets at Old Trafford in 1956 — with Australian batsmen walking out to the wicket and back to the pavilion in repeated misery — created an Aussie Blues and Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott and their friends recorded the joyous Laker’s Day at London’s Marquee Club?
Or when Gordon Greenidge’s double century and his fantastic square cutting at Lord’s in 1984 rose out of the match like a joyous stomp to win victory for the West Indies?
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