GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Explosive Cannonball tribute to jazz greats
Surging: Tony Kofi
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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
A Portrait of Cannonball
The Vortex, London
THE SPIRITS of the great Florida-born brother-boppers, alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” and trumpeter Nat Adderley blow hard and free at this Vortex gig.
Nottingham-born Tony Kofi and London trumpeter Byron Wallen assume the roles of Cannonball and Adderley with a seething zest and power, alongside pianist Alex Webb, drummer Alfonso Vitale and virtuoso bassist Andy Cleyndert.
As they storm into their first number, Gigi Gryce’s Minority, you sense that this is going to be a burning session.
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