This week we have heard news from Karla Harris, in a modern format newsletter. She is our favourite jazz artist here in the office and the album she released a year or so ago now is still prominent on our playlists. When you read her news, you will realise that Karla is continuing to enjoy some high profile good publicity and we thank her for sharing it.and allowing us to PASS IT ON
This book is utterly original, human, and provocative. Like the author herself.
If you haven’t met Isabella Rossellini yet, we need to talk! She is a model, film star and philanthropist and we will share the story of her illustrious family and multifaceted career
The 13th Annual Blue Note Jazz Festival, produced by New York City’s Blue Note Jazz Club, will kick off June 1 and run through early July
One of the largest black box stages in Greater Manchester with walls over a metre in thickness, the concert hall boasts a generous orchestra pit as well as benefiting from its newly expanded seating capacity. During the most recent refurbishment, an extra balcony was added, whilst utmost care has been taken to preserve the venue’s distinctive organ. Air conditioning and state-of-the-art audio amplification make attending a modern and refreshing experience. Though the Royal Northern College of Music Concert Hall hosts pop and rock as well as classical, its excellent programming is pointedly more diverse and specialist than other venues in the city. This, and the venue’s unique characteristics, ensures that any visit to the RNCM is a treat.
The first few weeks of The Co-OP Arean in Manchester were set by troubles and delays. Nevertheless Elbow opened the venue with a superb gig.
Today on our travels we heard our much-revered historian, Michael Higgins questioning what constitutes too many pooets. We also visited what the artist Claudie calls her Gallery At Home and then found a pile of information about the work, in films and books and activism or Isobella Rossellini. We also bring you two items music of overheard Jazz In Reading. Even after Mr. Kipling´s exceedingly good cake the jazz had us hungering for more, and our jazz columnist and broadcaster, Steve Bewick baked us some of his jazz Hot Biscuits- We also found you a review of a classical duo at Chichester Cathedral znd, with a reader´s perspective our Americana correspondent Peter Pearson. Of course we bring our usual closing piece of Island Insight delivered by Canary Detect.
Old Crow Medicine Show member Ketch Secor is heavily involved in the publishing of children´stories.
If we haven´t yet persuaded you to take out a subscription to the Paste On-Line magazine, let us remind you of a couple of reasons that might tempt you
the lyrics of the single Let It Be seemed cemi spiritual and personal and also quasi religious, perhaps the phrase, Let It Be, was actually a request from The Beatles to fans and media alike not to ´murder to dissect´ as Wordsworth put it.
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Pass It On 2/11/2025 Jenny Bray, Nash and Asher, Opus 222nd November 2025 - 7:00 am
A LITTLE BUNDLE OF SUMMER. sidetracks & detours 3rd September 2025 featuring Jazz Artist, Jenny Bray. Broadcaster and writer, Steve Bewick, Expo Folk and Sound Roots3rd September 2025 - 7:00 am
PASS IT ON: MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER by Pearson & Warwick3rd August 2025 - 7:00 am