Barack Obama loves her, the purists call her the real thing — and now, says Esperanza Spalding, who performs at the London Jazz Festival next month, she wants the world to hear her astonishing music
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Roy Williams' valiant attempt to adapt classic 1950s novel Absolute Beginners cannot disguise the fact that it remains resistant to theatrical treatment, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
A new stage adaptation of the 1958 cult novel puts back what the sanitised film version left out, says director Liam Steel - all the sex, race and rock'n'roll.
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Greenford's gifted allrounder Troy Miller is a brilliant drummer, keyboard player and composer who had the Pizza Express Jazz Club swinging for three nights at the weekend.... more
Our critics introduce the names to watch out for over the next 12 months - the ones you won’t have heard of before, the ones that you’ll suddenly see everywhere – and the one the critics will love best in 2007.... more
Guitarist Jo Caleb and his vocalist wife Lisa run a tight ship at Jazz Talent Jam, which hosts the kind of jam-session you would hear before jazz education became a mass-production line.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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