GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Pertinent politics in consummate jazz outing from Soweto Kinch
Soweto Kinch performs in Manchester in 2012
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Soweto Kinch Trio
Ronnie Scott's, London
SOWETO KINCH is in prime fettle during this Ronnie Scott's gig, with the searing narratives of his alto saxophone enhanced by the intensity of the sound — matured since I last saw him a few years ago — here underpinned by Will Glaser's crackling drums and the earthen vibrato of Nick Jurd's pulsating bass.
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