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A warm March night, with a special magnetism
(L to R) Rudy Royston, Rudresh Mahanthappa and François Moutin
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Pizza Express, Soho
AFTER many records expressing the depth and complexity of his own unique musical essence, alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa’s new eponymous album with his Hero Trio — bassist Francois Moutin and drummer Rudy Royston, he counts it as “an immense pleasure to record music that is not my own.”
At Soho’s Pizza Express he performed a selection of these tunes with astonishing fluidity, breakneck speed and warm empathy with his confreres. Moutin’s deeply twanging artistry and Royston’s command of every percussive surface created a threesome unity of rampaging and moving sound.
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