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May 12, 2018 / Features

Jacob Collier does it in his room

Jacob Collier’s response to Quincy Jones’s offer to produce his first album was certainly novel: “Can we just be friends?” This was a London kid, whose ingenious reimagining of such songs as Stevie Wonder’s Isn’t She Lovely? had gone viral on YouTube, knocking back the producer of all those Michael…

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May 9, 2018 / Album Reviews - Archive

Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette

AFTER THE FALL (ECM) 8.5/10 Before you get too excited, no, pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette have not reunited. This double album is just another glittering gem from deep in the ECM vaults, released just on 20 years after it was recorded live. In fact…

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May 6, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

THE EFFECT

Old Fitzroy, April 22 (until May 19) 3.5/10 If a tiny kernel of truth lay buried somewhere deep within Lucy Prebble’s play, this production did not find it. Instead it piled more layers of falsity atop those already in the British playwright’s text. Combine that with the theatre’s 40-degree heat,…

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