MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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A proud and modest jazz revolutionary
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist PHIL HARGREAVES about his new album PI, and his long-standing support for the WMA
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AN OUTSTANDINGLY original saxophonist and improviser is Phil Hargreaves, whose new album Pi with vocalist Maggie Nicols (together they are Siapiau), is living and timbral proof of that.
He is also a vice-president of the Workers’ Music Association, so music is only one expression of his love of freedom, although as he says: “the beauty of improvisation is, that at its best, it creates something perfectly fitted to the moment it was created.”
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