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Jazz album reviews with CHRIS SEARLE: June 12, 2024
New releases from Ingi Bjarni, Simon Spillett Big Band and Charlotte Keeffe's Right Here, Right Now Quartet
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
Ingi Bjarni
Farfuglar
NXN Recordings
★★★★
JAZZ and Iceland may not come to mind simultaneously, but the Icelandic pianist Ingi Bjarni may change all that.
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