Concert Hall, September 20 The sniping right, which loves to lampoon the ’60s as the decade of self-indulgence, is blind to the benign optimism and the steely resolve that underpinned the belief in the potential for change. Indeed what attracted people to Joan Baez in those heady days, besides the…
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505, September 19 Often the most interesting artists are able to reinvent themselves, Picasso being the ultimate example. Having carved a career as a composer and violinist leading the Elektra String Quartet, Romano Crivici has now returned to his first instrument, piano, and formed a new ensemble playing compositions that…
Dawn (Cuneiform) A certain virtuoso local drummer, now deceased, used to think British jazz was a joke. I doubt he had heard much. The US Cuneiform label continues its inestimable retrospective on British jazz’s golden era, stretching roughly from 1965 until 1980, and this new instalment of recordings from the…