Titles for gigs don’t come much more improbable or intriguing than this one, and therefore the urge to head down to SW10 and to investigate what it was all actually about was to prove irresistible… “It’s not a tribute,” explained [...]
“Do you feel good?” US pianist Vijay Iyer asked the audience with wry humour. “We’re going to change that!“ Compere Kevin Legendre had told us how Iyer’s music “…called out oppression, inequality and unconscionable government practices.” Would it make us [...]
“Marcel went to Australia for a few days in early 2020 and we saw him a year and eight months later,” chuckled the French Lebanese multi-instrumentalist and composer Bachar Mar-Khalifé from the Barbican stage, as he mused on the relief [...]
