DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
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“EACH generation finds a new way to speak of their times through music,” says prime saxophonist Paul Dunmall.
He should know. Born in south London in 1953, he grew up with a mother who loved classical music and a father who was a semi-professional drummer.
Dunmall started on clarinet aged 12 and moved on to alto saxophone a few years later “as my father thought that playing jazz might be a good option.”
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