MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons
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Chris Searle speaks with drummer DEVIN GRAY of the Melt All The Guns Trio
The Vortex jazz club in Dalston, London
[Pic: Danny Robinson/geograph.org.uk/CC]
JOHN GREEN, MARIA DUARTE and LEO BOIX review The Shepherd and the Bear, Hamlet, Twinless, and 100 Nights of Hero
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a version set amid the violent conflicts of the 19th century west African Oyo empire before the intervention of British colonialism
GILL PARSONS introduces the remarkable process by which her childhood experience of a convalescent home has become a new drama
SEAMUS HIGGINS introduces some basic facts about the role of sugar in driving a worldwide crisis of diet-related diseases
Japanese innovation, Costa Rican skullduggery, Glasgow Central suicide, and good deeds punished in London
MELT All the Guns are a revolutionary jazz trio formed by drummer Devin Gray, trumpeter Ralph Alessi and a pianist Myslaure Augustin.
Their music radiates now-times in the US and Berlin, where Gray spends much of his time. I ask him about his life in music and the themes of the trio’s new album, Melt All the Guns 2.
Born in Portland, Maine in 1983, his father a businessman, his mother a health worker, it was his grandfather who set him on the road to jazz.
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