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Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: April 30, 2024
New releases from Kamasi Washington, Ruth Theodore, Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement
(Young)
★★★
WITH 2015’s The Epic and then Heaven and Earth in 2018 — both triple albums! — Kamasi Washington established himself as the visionary figurehead of contemporary US jazz.
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