Jasper Rees
Bio
Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins
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Total Immersion: Music for the End of Time review - miracles...
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America in Crisis, Saatchi Gallery review – a country in jeo...
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LPO, Canellakis, Royal Festival Hall review - ecstatic sonor...
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Album: Fiona Monbet – Maelström
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Music Reissues Weekly: Stan Tracey Trio - The 1959 Sessions
What’s now been titled The 1959 Sessions represents an unreleased studio album completed by the Stan Tracey Trio on 5...
Blu-ray: Champion
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Long Promised Road review - another attempt to probe the fra...
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Album: Eels - Extreme Witchcraft
Mr. E’s music examines hellish depths, but always climbs back towards the light....
Raymonda, English National Ballet, Coliseum review - a creak...
Neglected classics, whether books, plays or ballets, are usually neglected for a reason, and so it is with the three-act ballet Raymonda...
Nightmare Alley review - a dazzling trip through a heart of...
Director Guillermo del Toro has described Nightmare Alley as “a straight, really dark story”, lacking the supernatural elements in his...