MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
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JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
MARY HALVORSON, born in Boston in 1980, her mother a nurse, her father a landscape architect, has become one of jazz’s prime guitarists.
She began on the guitar at 11 with early influences from Hendrix to the Beatles to Monk, Coltrane, Miles and Ornette, became interested in free improvisation at school and after studying with alto saxophonist Anthony Braxton has been “working as a musician my whole life.”
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