SIDETRACKS & DETOURS May 2025 Contents story 1 Next guitar hero Marcus Bonfanti Trio story 2 Crowmarsh Jazz Groove Collective story 3 Jazz At Progress John Horler Trio story 4 Jazz @ Oakwood Dierdre Cartwright story 5 A4 Brass Quartet story 6 The Bury Black Pudding Company story 7 Radio Whispers through stereo […]
sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON – The Last Post Sunday 24 11 2024 Editor: Norman Warwick Writers: Peter Pearson, Michael Higgins, Trevor Bannister, Steve Bewick, Steve Cooke, Graham Marshall Contributors: Alfred Michael, Joseph Aloysius, The Poet In The Rain, Carusoe, Ralph Dent, Akela Listings: Jazz In Reading, Music That´s Going Places, Manchester Folk, […]
she digs into the deep recesses of herself with the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music
The songs [on Love Will Be Reborn] are autobiographical in many ways
Angelina Jolie is the first of two stars we feature in sidetacks & detours this week, the other being Martha Wainwright, who is part of an acting and musical dynasty.
Vampire Weekend on stage at Madison Square Gardens
RED ELLEN: People’s History Museum exhibition 9th Nov previewed by I love Manchester newsletter This November, the People’s History Museum (PHM) is shining a spotlight on one of the North’s most indomitable figures, Ellen Wilkinson.(below left) Known as “Red Ellen,” Wilkinson’s legacy as a champion of social justice, a fiery parliamentarian and an indefatigable advocate for the […]
Quincy Jones died this week just as Herb Alpert´s Trumpet became fifty years,… and much more officially
I have selected two books, each written or co-written by two members of The Band, Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson respectively.
I look back to when I was one and twenty, as A E Housman would have had it, and feel sure I was in my salad days. I had fallen in love with a generation of songwriters and was enjoying the folksy, pastoral music that was a gentler sibling of rock. We had a stereophonic recording player that was like a piece of furniture and it had a sliding door over the turntable and I often tried to squeeze my head into the cabinet so that I could hear, even better, the fierce emotions wrapped in such laid back and softly sung arrangements. When I married and had a home of our own I was enjoying listening to how this generation of Canadian songwriters began to influence the writers who would forge what we now call Americana.
