Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
‘The privilege to partake in the simple act of being together’
Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist ABRAHAM BURTON
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
WE remember how monstrously Covid hit New York City. Its lockdown months of agony and isolation were finally broken in mid-2021, when at last its musicians could play again in open-air performances.
One significant venue was Summit Rock in Central Park, formerly the highest point of Seneca Village, a settlement founded in 1825 by free black Americans, which in 1857 was destroyed to create the park.
On June 20 2021, the New York trio of saxophonist Abraham Burton, drummer Eric McPherson and bassist Dezron Douglas performed live and free at Summit Rock to passing New Yorkers now released from lockdown.
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