Hints and tips:
...Jean Toussaint’s following set was based on the CD Brother Raymond, launched at Ronnie Scott’s last year....
...Wallen’s trumpet soared over flamenco rhythms, Rollins’s stop-time breaks had bite and drummer Shane Forbes’s press rolls and broken-beat thumps brought the set to a peak....
...He evidently doted on Scott, though Scott’s is the main word on the matter. He died of Aids, circa Rock Hudson, without Rock’s taboo-busting candour....
...Scott finding Amundsen’s flag at the South Pole is a metaphor for every modern traveller’s sense of being pre-empted. But perhaps discovery was always a state of mind, a dream....
International Edition