Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
John Edwards and Mark Sanders
Nisus Duets (Emanem 4094)
John Butcher and John Edwards
Optic (Emanem 4039)
John Edwards
Volume (psi 08.09)
STRANGE how a boyhood encounter with a two-stringed ukulele could have sparked the formation of one of Britain’s finest improvising bassists.
John Edwards was born in Hounslow, west London, in 1964. His elder brother played drums in a punk band and John would add to the rhythm on the front room chair arms.
When he picked up the ukulele, he made bass lines by plucking its two strings as if it were a bass guitar.
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