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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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Brighton Argus
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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