PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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Musical union of three jazz troubadours
An improvised moment full of invented melody and collective now-times sound drawn from a century of jazz tradition, writes CHRIS SEARLE
Alexander Hawkins Trio at the Jazz South Radar Sessions 2021
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LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
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Alexander Hawkins, Neil Charles and Stephen Davis
Cafe Oto, Dalston
BACK again to Cafe Oto’s stone floors, iron pillars and a living artistic heritage of the one-time factory that for decades produced Reeves’s paints and brushes for generations of young artists and child painters, now a house of revolutionary sounds and startling and audacious musicianship.
A scintillating opening: Alex Hawkins’s founding, compelling, chirping piano notes, Neil Charles’s stirring bass bow-work and drummer Stephen Davis’s tinkling brushes provoking the silence of Cafe Oto’s spellbound listeners.
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