GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
Jazz albums: Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981
Creative juices flow as black musicians confer
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
STEVE JOHNSON recommends an exceptional album that explores the narrative folk tradition often with a strong political message
JOHN GREEN appreciates an informative and readable account of the nation state and its current dilemmas, but doubts the solutions this author has to offer
Marion Brown and Dave Burrell
Live at the Black Musicians’ Conference, 1981
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WOULD the founding pioneers of jazz in New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century ever have thought that a future nucleus of their music would be created in Vilnius, Lithuania, more than a century later?
That is where one of the music’s hottest labels is based and among their newest releases is a marvellous 1981 encounter between alto saxophonist Marion Brown and pianist Dave Burrell at a black musicians’ conference.
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