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Eyes ablaze, gypsy singer Sarah Bedak stokes a fire We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size ★★★½ When it does catch fire, it blazes up in a sudden inferno. The two saxophones coil and snake around each other in a mad scramble of melody over tearaway rhythms punctuated by bucking syncopations and juddering stop-times. And then out the front there’s Sarah Bedak, with her eyes also ablaze and her voice by turns sultry or strid...

The year with the black hole at its heart We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss The year with the black hole at its heart Normal text size Advertisement Speaking after a live-stream concert at the end of May, the super-versatile percussionist Jess Ciampa guessed that in the year prior to the lockdown hed had only a single day off. Then, for the next seven weeks, he had zero interaction with other musicians. Some players went for more than nine mon...