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Ryan Speedo Green is promoted to the lead in Terence Blanchard’s powerful, bluesy show
Sold-out Barbican show saw the 83-year-old drawing on the energy of his refreshed ensemble and riffing on piano, vocoder and keytar
The composer’s first opera comes to New York after the success of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’
Touring band the E-Collective and the Turtle Island String Quartet offered striking support
The company’s first opera by a black composer offers moments of lyricism in a painful coming-of-age story
The composer of ‘Fire Shut Up In My Bones’ says he hopes his work will open doors for others when it launches the house’s season
The pithy themes and well-worked rhythms deliver the strong moods and focus of a movie soundtrack
The festival’s closing events included a homage to Coltrane and Joe Zawinul’s last work
The Grammy-winning composer’s score for Robert De Niro’s film evokes a nocturnal New York
Terence Blanchard’s ambitious ‘opera in jazz’ abounds in skilful word-setting and rhythmic verve
The three-day festival featured a kaleidoscope of acts from jazz and populist backgrounds
Strong themes establish setting and mood and each musician’s personality becomes as tangible as a character in a play
A reading of ‘Danny Boy’ maintained the original’s hymnal essence
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