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January 17, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, January 11   Had Ernest Rutherford not worked out how to split the atom science would only have had to wait until Ambrose Akinmusire came along. Where Rutherford used alpha particles Akinmusire uses something much more lethal: a trumpet. No other instrument seems to scythe through the…

January 12, 2014 / Features - Archive
January 6, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

  Forever (Decca) It could almost be a flaw from a classical tragedy. A gifted singer, swollen with acclaim and popularity, suddenly believes he or she can write songs. It’s rife among jazz singers who, vexed by trying to make standards live anew, trot out trite ditties of their own,…