MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Wayne Escoffery Quartet, Pizza Express, Soho
Horn of plenty from Wayne Escoffery and trio of virtuosi
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
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
STUDIES with rampant alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, tours with Herbie Hancock and a long tenure as bandmate of great trumpeter Tom Harrell have helped make Wayne Escoffery the superb hornman that he is.
In the company of three virtuoso US confreres — pianist Danny Grissett, bassist Josh Ginsburg and drummer Damon Brown — tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery’s produces some dizzying ascents and plummeting cadences as he surges into his solos at this gig.
The notes teem from his saxophone with an unquenchable power from his opening chorus of Billy Drummond’s Dubai, while the outstanding Grissett’s hugely inventive and blues-baked piano runs with improvising richness.
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