Soweto Kinch: The New Emancipation – review

(SKP)Soweto Kinch has almost certainly been on the end of the knee-jerk reproofs customarily directed at sophisticated artists who adopt street-culture mannerisms – but his particular combination of hipness, historical awareness and journalistic ability to join up telling fragments from contemporary life on the margins makes him an unusually powerful force as both a contemporary jazz musician and an unsanctimonious social commentator. Kinch's theme here is modern slavery – the poor recruit...

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