WORLD LOSES JAZZ EXPLORER.

what Corea did best: eroding divisions between classical music, pop standard and dazzling jazz improvisation and providing a blueprint for the shape of jazz to come.
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JAZZ STILL JUMPIN´, JIVIN´AND ZOOMIN

Since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic the jazz press has been keen to alert readers of whatever alternatives are being delivered instead of live concerts.

FOUR TIMES MORE FUN

we recently learned from Jazz In Europe magazine that a new label, Le Coq has been formed to enable new combinations of established artists to play together.
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ART THROUGH THE WINDOW to lift covid gloom

The Great Big Art Exhibition will run from Thursday January 28 until April, and it seems likely that UK families could, to borrow a name employed by my local Touchstones Arts & Heritage Centre, when I was living in Rochdale, England, create their own ´People´s Gallery´ with walkways right around the UK.
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TIMPLE SAFE IN HANDS OF ALEXIS LEMES

He would like to see Timple theory and practice included in the curriculum at the Conservatoire on Lanzarote, offering initiation skills right the way through to professional skills.

REFLECTIONS of Mary Wilson

The music was infectious and, with it, the group achieved unprecedented success, producing 12 No. 1 hits including Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love and Stop! In the Name of Love.
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FRANKENSTEIN´S GRANNY: The Mary Wollstonecraft statue. By Michael Higgins

All biographers should aim to depict their subject as real life people and write a life that is true to what they wanted to be and what perhaps they actually became. The same should attain to graphic art and sculpture.

I HAVE A ´BUT´ but don´t know what that but is, about Springsteen. by Norman Warwick

Springsteen’s latest recording reassembles an E Street Band in peak form on nine newly written songs and three he’s had kicking around since before his 1973 debut.

JAZZ JAMMED INTO CRATES

The people at Jazziz also remember rummaging through the record stores. That’s why they are rebooting that tradition for the digital age with their Crate Digging video series, in which they search through crates of memories to bring you a handful of album recommendations on a given theme. It’s social media in the truest sense of the term: no algorithms, no computer-generated playlist.
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MANRIQUE: MAGNIFICENT & MAGICAL

the world, could do with Manrique´s calm and vision and his oneness with nature at this time, in this hour of need.