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Keith Tippett and Dartington Improvising Trio, Vortex London
Brilliant sense of adventure and invention from jazz veterans
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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
AFTER a succession of serious health ailments and for the first time in over a year, one of jazz’s great virtuoso pianists, veteran Keith Tippett performs again at an old and beloved haunt.
He’s part of the Dartington Improvising Trio with his old saxophone confrere Paul Dunmall and the ever-innovative wordless voice of Julie Tippetts — the Julie Driscoll of Brian Auger’s Trinity in the 1960s and This Wheels on Fire fame.
The decades tumble away in an amalgam of brilliant contemporary invention in combinations of sounds that you’ve never heard before, even after half a century.
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