WYNTON AND WILLIE at The Lincoln 2007 & JAZZ in Reading 2022

fifteen years after the event I learned of a concert that had taken place in 2007. I caught Wynton and Willie, jazz and Americana sharing music, nad it has taken the shades from my eyes-

CONCIERTO RENACENTISTA

A capital city in name, Arrecife would be a town in the UK, being about the same surface area and population as Rochdale where I sued to live. And yet this felt like a world class performance by skilled players to a knowledgeable and appreciative audience. Credit to all concerned.

EL AFECTO ILLUSTRADO & Soprano Jone Martinez

Their standing ovations were truly deserved but I would also like to think the ovations were also showing gratitude to the Annual Canary Islands Festival Of International Classical Music, that this year, as in the 38 that preceded it, offered us musical excellence, entertainment, education and energy.

MORE FOLK ´N GOOD MUSIC

Back in my days on the folk circuit some forty years ago there was a vast no-man´s land and some intense suspicion between traditions and contemporary folk music, much as there once was (still is?) in Jazz. UK Folk has found an arbitrator and revivalist in the English Folk Expo organisation and Jazz fans can settle their differences over Steve Bewick´s weekly eclectic mix cloud jazz presentation of Hot Biscuits.

BLUE NOTE FOR A CRITICT

this landmark publication tells the story of an influential jazz institution and commemorates Blue Note's momentous contribution to modern music and style

CARNIVAL, COLDPLAY NO-PLAY & COMIC HEROES Spanish Version

'¡Oh, Norman,.. Tienes razón de nuevo. Ya he decidido en qué quiero gastar mi dinero", dijo emocionada. Ï nos llevará a mí y a Mama a la Convención de la Comic Con en Londres casi al mismo tiempo que Barcelona y Coldplay.

CARNIVAL, COLDPLAY NO-PAY AND COMIC BOOK HEROES

Between early March  and 1st October 2023, Coldplay will perform 47 gigs across Europe and over to the venues like The Rose Bowl in the States all at big stadium venues offering attendance figures like the fifty thousand I mentioned earlier and could earn the band up to 105,750000 or to bring it down to earth, over 100million euroes.

OSCAR AND BARNEY TABOR classical musicians

We have noted that Rochdale Music Society has some wonderful concerts still to take place at The Heywood Civic Centre during the remainder of the 2022/3 season, and we list details below for our readers.

TIMPLES AND LITTLE GUITARS make Consonannces

It was when the two ensembles combined for the final third of the programme .that we offered the fantastic Libertango by Astor Piazzolla and two works by Fran Yanez with the eponymous and very popular Consonancias. The closing number, also by Yanes, was called Vivo and lived up to its title in a lively fashion..

BRITISH AMBASSADOR AND THE LEGENDARY LARRY

´It should be noted that Larry Yaskiel is the first English journalist to receive the British Empire medal in Spain and has been very grateful to be distinguished in this way by the British Royal House, explaining that they evaluate the work of a person in the community in which they live. Larry has been very proud of this recognition and commented with enthusiasm that he will continue working so that the British always feel at home in Lanzarote.