Conservatives view the sixties jazz avant-garde as a dead end.
In his Imagine documentary, Alan Yentob stared at John Coltrane’s empty chair and explained his post-1965 output as a mistake caused by religion and drugs, the ungrateful Afro-American making a hat out of his invitation to the Conservatoire.
Four decades later the saxophonist Matana Roberts, in Dalston with a British trio, probes and deconstructs, bows her head to a bespoke spirituality, dovetails into moments of micro-melody, bleats bugle style like Albert Ayler, and chases the ‘trane just that little bit further on Turn It Around, presenting an unassailable case for this music as a living form.
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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John Robins, Comedian
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Guest1001, Youtube
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph