Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Southampton jazz residency showcases new British composers
Harbour acoustics, late sets and charts written on the train down.
A week-long jazz residency in Southampton gave emerging composers a harbour-side room, a house band and an audience willing to hear unfinished edges.
Two pieces already have London club dates; the point was the workshop energy, not premature polish.
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