MATTHEW HAWKINS relishes the valiant defiance of two gay Scottish painters whose example resists both collectors’ taste and historical fiction
‘Before each concert, we gathered in a circle with our heads together and felt aligned, making a sound’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez
Danilo Perez
[Tito Herrera]
Essays on contemporary Latin American feminism, a poetry debut by a queer Texan of Mexican heritage, and a lush volume of tango and milonga drawings
JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite
The bard pays homage to his two muses: his wife and his football club
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by an incoherent show that fails to question stereotypical assumptions about the Soviet Union
WILL STONE, JAMES WALSH and MARIA DUARTE review Souleymane’s Story, Sunlight, Good Fortune, and After The Hunt
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In October 2014, the giant Newark, New Jersey-born tenor and soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter (1933-2023) played one of his final concerts in Stockholm Concert Hall. This has now been released as Celebration: Volume 1. His longstanding superfine quartet-mates, bassist John Patitucci, drummer Brian Blade and the insurgent Panamanian pianist, Danilo Perez, were with him.
I ask Perez about his own life in music, and the impact upon it by the great Wayne.
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