The bard rests on his laurels, and swipes left and right
‘Jazz was created for and by the African-American community and was always political by its very nature’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to celebrated US guitarist DUCK BAKER
Duck Baker, Incus Festival, 2009
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MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium
ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review The Courageous, The Cut, Christy, and On Swift Horses
TOM STONE sings the praises of one of the oldest open-air festivals in Britain
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MAYER WAKEFIELD speaks to Urielle Klein-Mekongo about activism, musical inspiration and the black British experience
“THELONIOUS Monk is not only our greatest genius, no-one else is even close.”
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