WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
‘The privilege to partake in the simple act of being together’
Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist ABRAHAM BURTON
Abraham Burton
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Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
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WE remember how monstrously Covid hit New York City. Its lockdown months of agony and isolation were finally broken in mid-2021, when at last its musicians could play again in open-air performances.
One significant venue was Summit Rock in Central Park, formerly the highest point of Seneca Village, a settlement founded in 1825 by free black Americans, which in 1857 was destroyed to create the park.
On June 20 2021, the New York trio of saxophonist Abraham Burton, drummer Eric McPherson and bassist Dezron Douglas performed live and free at Summit Rock to passing New Yorkers now released from lockdown.
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