Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
A fiery musical talent from the Windy City
Chris Searle on Jazz
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
John Jenkins
Young Jenkins: 1957 Quintet Sessions
(Fresh Sound FSR CD931)
A STRANGE jazz life was that of the alto saxophonist John Jenkins. Born in Chicago in 1931 he went to Du Sable High School, which had an extraordinary music teacher called Captain Walter Dyett who tutored some of the most powerful saxophonists of the post-bop epoch, including Johnny Griffin, Sun Ra’s great tenor horn John Gilmore and Clifford Jordan.
Much influenced by the Charlie Parker sound and Parker’s disciples Jackie McLean and Sonny Still, Jenkins gigged for several years around Chicago before moving to New York in March 1957 where he very soon found himself playing in the Mingus band.
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