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Mingus Big Band, Ronnie Scott's London
Marvellous Mingus tribute
Irresistible: Mingus Big Band
[Ronnie Scott’s] 
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
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PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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
WHO can resist the irrepressible musical brilliance and politically regenerative sound of the 14-piece Mingus Big Band and their tribute to the great bass man?
Crammed with powerful US virtuosi, his genius lives again in their every performance.
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