Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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McFarlane salutes Vaughan
MARK TURNER is thrilled by the the British singer’s tribute to the late great Sarah Vaughan
STRONG SOCIAL CONSCIENCE: Zara McFarlane
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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
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
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
Zara Macfarlane
Sweet Whispers
(Eternal Source Of Light)
GIL SCOTT HERON once poked fun at po-faced purists with his release But Is That Jazz? Heron was one of that generation who changed popular understanding of jazz just as had Davis and Coltrane, Gillespie and Parker before them. In the late ’60s and ’70s Jazz bled into other forms of popular music and while arguably it’s more broadly appreciated today, in a variety of forms, there are still those who mournfully proclaim “jazz is dead.”
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