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“We need to safeguard those who every day struggle with the right to imagination”
CHRIS SEARLE interviews jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS
Jazz pianist Alexander Hawkins
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
“ALTHOUGH I also value the piano as a harp in a box, I love to think of it as 88 tuned drums.”
So says one of the true nonpareils of British piano jazz, Alexander Hawkins.
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