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Val Wilmer: Jazz - Roots & Branches
A celebration of the great jazz photographer in words and pictures

Red House Painters
Dave Morrison colour-matches the Frisco foursome

Tim Berne
Will Montgomery meets the NYC sax explorer

Orbital
Louise Gray shapes up to the Techno topographers

ECM/Jan Garbarek
Kenny Mathieson jets to Zurich for a 500th party

Invisible Jukebox: Jack Bruce
The bassman makes a guess - Philip Watson hides the labels

Great Lost Recordings
John Corbett recalls forgotten improv greats

Seeing Things
Wearing erotica on the sleeve

Torch Songs
Piers Ford dissects the divas

Gay Disco
David Lubich tells the true story of the House underground

Marvin Gaye
Karen Bennett gets the divided soulster onto the couch

Riot Grrrl
Ian Penman tells the tale of sexual scandal in and out of the mainstream

Print Run
Books about radical populism, Sorabji and music and psychology

Reel To Reel
David Eimer reviews Japanese cyberpunk on video

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Win Capital radio Music Festival tickets, Al DiMeola CDs or a blues and soul compilation CD

Soundcheck
The records that count, in large amounts

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The Write Place
Our devoted readers reach for the green ink