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Contributor
Philip Clark

Philip Clark has written for The Guardian, Gramophone, The Wire, Jazzwise and the London Review of Books. His biography of Dave Brubeck, A life In Time, will be published on 18 February 2020 by Da Capo Press in the US and Headline Books in the UK.

Reviews
‘Blue World’ Review: Rediscovering John Coltrane’s Only Original Film Soundtrack

The ‘lost’ record captures the saxophonist at a time when he was thinking that albums could aspire to be something grander than a string of loosely woven tunes

BY Philip Clark | 08 OCT 19
Opinion
The Fascination in John Coltrane’s ‘Lost’ Album Lies in its Incompleteness

Previously unheard music on Both Directions At Once includes blues as imposing as the saxophonist would ever record

BY Philip Clark | 04 JUL 18
Opinion
Searching for a New Intimacy at London Contemporary Music Festival

When musical signifiers for sex so often become sonic pornography, LCMF 2017 showed alternative ways of marrying sound and body

BY Philip Clark | 20 DEC 17