The Atlantic Jazz Lab Orchestra returned to Lanzarote on Sunday May 10th to present Too Darn Hot!, their new album recorded in La Gomera and released on the Dutch label Télès Jazz Records. Their performance paid tribute to the great female voices of jazz—Anita O’Day, Diana Krall, Doris Day, and Peggy Lee—through the orchestra’s arrangements […]
SOUND ROOTS AND ENGLISH FOLK EXPO Sharing their news of awards, charts, gigs and festivals, Norman Warwick invites sidetracks & detours readers to PASS IT ON August, die she must, as the harmonious voices of Paul & Arties once warned us. But I believe that Simon and Garfunkel knew the changing seasons needn’t bring only […]
ON LOSING A WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING JIMMY CRICKET: a personal tribute by Steve Cooke from all across the arts. Laughter, having its evolutionary roots in creating social bonds that help individual and group survival, is a powerful tool that improves physical health, mental well-being, and social connections, acting as a natural stress reliever and immune […]
all across the arts news, previews & reviews published by Steve Cooke and passed on by sidetracks & detours THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING what the next decade might hold news by Steve Cooke What change would you most like to see in the Creative Arts in Rochdale Borough over the next ten years? […]
Songwriters Chapter 3 part 1 KATE WOLF – AN UNFINISHED LIFE by Peter Pearson When Kate Wolf succumbed to leukemia in 1986, at the age of 44, her star was on the rise. The previous year she had returned from a short sabbatical (to spend more time with her family, after 12 years on the […]
WYNTON MARSALIS LETS JAZZ JOINS US TOGETHER by Norman Warwick It would have been around twenty five years ago, when Steve Cooke (left) was partnering me in presenting two articles a week that took readers of the Rochdale Observer, Middleton Guardian and The Heywood Advertiser newspapers All Across The Arts. I always admired Steve´s awareness […]
LEE DORSEY working in a coal mine and Norman Warwick decided to Lendanear No singer in the Big Easy had a more easy-going manner than Lee Dorsey (right).. The rhythms behind him could be wickedly syncopated (they usually were), and Dorsey would still sound unruffled, unhurried, as if it were a sunny afternoon and he had nothing better to […]
LENDANEAR TO DUO BRAVO down sidetracks & detours with Norman Warwick sidetracks & detours first came across Duo Bravo on May 13th 2026, when my wife, Dee, and I stepped into The Tourist Information Office in the Timple Museum in Teguise. We enquired about any forthcoming concerts and the kind and lovely lady behind the […]
Chris Maume, in his review of the programme for The Independent reminded us that On the Home Service in the Fifties and Sixties, Ewan MacColl (left) and Charles Parker put together a series of “Radio Ballads” in which different communities were portrayed through interviews and the songs inspired by them. Over the past few years […]
sidetracks & detours IN SEARCH OF WHERE TRUTH LIES by Norman Warwick Some Americana singer-songwriters are occasionally unreliable narrators and some seem to always be unreliable narrators. Americana is not, of course, the only genre to hold such writers in their format and nor is song-writing the only art form in which fans and creators […]
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
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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