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‘Before each concert, we gathered in a circle with our heads together and felt aligned, making a sound’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez
Danilo Perez
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
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TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
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In October 2014, the giant Newark, New Jersey-born tenor and soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter (1933-2023) played one of his final concerts in Stockholm Concert Hall. This has now been released as Celebration: Volume 1. His longstanding superfine quartet-mates, bassist John Patitucci, drummer Brian Blade and the insurgent Panamanian pianist, Danilo Perez, were with him.
I ask Perez about his own life in music, and the impact upon it by the great Wayne.
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