SEAMUS KELLY IS an admirer of Tracy Chapman
Along with a storyteller, visual artist and a songwriter Seamus recently completed work as the resident poet on the Stories We Could Tell project (runner up in the Rochdale Diversity Awards 2016);
Author Archive for: Norman
Entries by Norman Warwick
THE OKAY-NESS OF TAKING CHANCES
´I feel that music has taught me self-acceptance, kindness, and the “okay-ness” of taking chances and making mistakes,
ANNIE ROSS remembered by an admirer
a chic and witty vocalist with an octave-leaping, fearless approach to her intuitive musicianship
GUY CLARK: craftsman of character
Guy struck me as a hard task master not given to lightly suffering fools, though he seemed demanding, too, even in self- appraisal.
DEEP FOG OF MISUNDERSTANDING cleared by Cat Toren to reveal Scintillating Beauty
listeners might feel they are hearing her at prayer
MUSIC HONOURS ITS OWN. a tribute to Denice Johnson
Denice Johnson helped popularize the Manchester-inspired ´Madchester´ sound.
A NIGHT RIDER´S LAMENT FOR OLD FRIEND
Lennie was not a real extroverted kind of person. Most of his expression was through playing. But he could play pretty damn good.
JAZZ DETECTIVE: Zev Feldman investigates Bill Evans
Recordings by the Bill Evans-Eddie Gomez-Jack DeJohnette line-up are as prized as they are rare.
LONG NIGHTS AND BANJO MUSIC
these the strings tightly re-tuned between father and son providers of rhythm and harmony
BILLIE´S BLUES ECHOING STILL
´a song as potently stirring and timelessly resonant as Strange Fruit´ should have been performed often and without hesitation, as that’s exactly what Holiday did throughout her unduly short yet greatly impactful career.
