sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON 59 weekly supplement Sunday 30 6 2024

If football coach Gareth Southgate is serious about improving England’s fading fortunes in the Euro ’24 competition, he would do well to check out the Gaz Hughes Trio. It’s performance at the Progress Theatre on Friday 21 June, part of a 50-date ‘Nuclear Bebopalypse’ tour of the UK, had everything that was missing from England’s inept display against Denmark – perfect balance, poise, purpose, exciting changes in pace, the light and shade of emotional expression and oodles of energetic creative spirit.  Above all, it was hugely entertaining.
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LIVING THE JAZZ LIFE

Women instrumentalists - especially those performing on such suspect jazz instruments as harp (Dorothy Ashley) and violin (Regina Carter) (right)  have had an even more difficult career path.
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DUO CANTELINA:

Standing in, recently, at truly short notice, Duo Cantelina wowed the audience at St Mary in the Baum with their professionalism and vibrant beauty of sound. Their scintillating Spanish colours brightened the day.
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DIANA KRALL: The Look Of Love

down at Jazz Junction Norman Warwick feels the return of THE LOOK OF LOVE by Diana Krall Verve has reissued Diana Krall’s The Look of Love as part of its Acoustic Sounds series of transfers from analog tapes and remastered…
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RUMOURS OF ACOUSTIC GUITAR REVIVAL

The festival’s most memorable moment came at the end of Molly Tuttle’s set when she introduced the title track from her 2022 breakthrough album, The Crooked Tree, by telling a long story about the costs and benefits of being different from the rest of society

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON 58 weekly supplement Sunday 23 6 2024

On Lanzarote they call it the Ghost Hotel. It can be seen from a distance only in a certain light, and if you are driving along the LZ 2 near Playa Blanca it can be seen some days and others not, and even then only as a mirage-like object in the distance.
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DOWN AT JAZZ JUNCTION

A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from Today, Real Simple, Time, Los Angeles Times, and BookPage “The book we all need to revive our souls” (Nicole Dennis-Benn): A sweeping family saga about the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the disappearance of a father, and the long-hidden history of a declining New England mill town. “A powerful novel about how our family history shapes us. Swift River broke my heart, and then offered me hope.” —Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful It’s the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she and her mother hitchhike everywhere they go. But that’s not the only reason Diamond stands out: she’s teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop’s been gone, she is the only Black person in all of Swift River. This summer, Ma is determined to declare Pop legally dead so that they can collect his life insurance money, get their house back from the bank, and finally move on. But when Diamond receives a letter from a relative she’s never met, key elements of Pop’s life are uncovered, and she is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, whose lives span the 20th century and reveal a much larger picture of prejudice and abandonment, of love and devotion. As pieces of their shared past become clearer, Diamond gains a sense of her place in the world and in her family. But how will what she’s learned of the past change her future? A story of first friendships, family secrets, and finding the courage to let go, Swift River is a sensational debut about how history shapes us and heralds the arrival of a major new literary talent.
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2010  MUSIC BY NORTH-WEST COMPOSERS

This was the first time that Rochdale’s ancient Parish Church of St. Chad had been used as a venue for an RMS concert.