STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Love is Glynde
JOE GILL wallows in superb evenings of jazz, funk and rap, and only regrets that savouring the music displaced his opportunity to heckle
VIRTUOSO: Yussef Dayes performs at Love Supreme Jazz festival
[Courtesy of Love Supreme Jazz Festival]
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
Love Supreme Festival
Glynd, East Sussex
THE modern music festival can descend into an exercise in highly commercial nostalgia for old rockers and their fans. But some old acts are like rare gems that deserve new audiences.
On the Glynde estate in Sussex, hundreds gathered in fevered excitement in a huge tent as Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke in a warm, soft voice introduced his next song, Freedom.
With his international band of top-flight musicians (trumpet, sax, cello, conga player, flute, double bass and drummer), what followed lifted that lucky audience into a state of mesmerised transcendence.
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