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Hearing Coltrane: Like watching a grown man learn how to speak
Watching several of Coltrane’s harmonic and melodic experiments at the cusp of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka emerges frightened, yet energised
‘I wanted to get to the soul’: Dick Fontaine on his approach to documentary filmmaking
After pioneering ‘truth cinema’ and at least 40 documentary films later, British director and producer Dick Fontaine has settled in Durban
On our Lists this week: The Carters, Ornette Coleman, and Dr John
In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches.
Take a deep breath
Strings may be an unexpected addition to Chris McGregor’s jazz, but his music was always about expansion, writes Shaun de Waal.