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On Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Willie, Lukas, and Micah Nelson Take on a Classic
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.
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.
Two world premières and new-to-Rochdale arrangements of classics
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.
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 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging. Originally released in 2001 and produced by Tommy LiPuma, the record […]
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
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.
Not many memoirs are generational events. This is
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