STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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MIGUEL ZENON tells Chris Searle why his latest album pays tribute to one of the great Puerto Rican singers
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
“IT WASN'T until I started to write my own music and conceptualise what I wanted to do as a musician that I started to consider my musical roots,” says the beautifully fluid alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon.
Paying tribute: Miguel Zenon (Pic: Michael Hoefner/Creative Commons)
“I wanted to strike a balance between the Puerto Rican folk and the jazz traditions, which have a lot in common.”
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