MARIA DUARTE reviews Desperate Journey, Blue Moon, Pillion, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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A deeply throbbing melodism
CHRIS SEARLE reviews Eddie Gomez, Binker Golding, Elliot Galvin, Gunter Baby Sommer and Raymond MacDonald
TELEPATHIC: Binker Golding
WILL STONE enjoys a set by an artist too eclectic to be pigeonholed
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
AT SOHO’S Pizza Express, Eddie Gomez, Puerto Rican-born bassist of the Bill Evans Trio and a Dizzy Gillespie alumnus, dug into a veteran’s groove with his swinging Italian bandmates.
His springing, resonant strings bounced into Cheeks, his tribute to Gillespie and the beautifully etched, deeply throbbing melodism of the lingering tune Ariana stayed long in the mind.
Among the host of tomes in Foyles’s West End bookshop, saxophonist Binker Golding and pianist Elliot Galvin played together with such an intimacy it’s as if both musicians were inside each others’ instruments, so telepathic was their improvising union.
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