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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JOHN McLAUGHLIN talks to Chris Searle about the sense of internationalism that's guided his life and music
Monumental music: John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra 2017
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
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN is one of the great pioneering jazz guitarists whose work defies any neat genre categorisation.
Born near Doncaster in 1942, he took up the guitar aged 11 and went on to play the blues with Alexis Korner, Graham Bond and Ginger Baker before moving to London and making his first classic album Extrapolations in 1969 with drummer Tony Oxley, saxophonist John Surman and bassist Brian Odges.
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