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OSCAR PETERSON: ´the man with four hands´.

Peterson was renowned for his remarkable speed and dexterity, meticulous and ornate technique, and dazzling, swinging style.

MY SON´S DAD´S MUSIC IS COOL AGAIN

Whether you hail from the innermost corner of one of America’s biggest metropolises or the same Appalachian foothills so eloquently described in the song, there’s just something undeniably comfortable about “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

LANZAROTE ENSEMBLE: sharing Mahler´s Jubilation

This was no raucus dance of jubilation, though: not a flag waving triumphalism. This was the jubilation, it seemed to me, of the satisfaction of survival and a new-found freedom to move forward. It was a jubilation that carried memories of those lost along the way.

ONE, TWO, – ONE, TWO, THREE FOUR

reminded us of how much the timple can add to contemporary, guitar-led pop music. The two that, for tonight, had become three gave us ninety minutes of catchy songs full of chorus and hooks, with brilliant guitar by Yoriell and some fantastic lead lines from the timple

QUESTION TRADITION AND SURVIVE

Craig´´ Jenkins´ review, of Kasey Musgraves´ newly released album, Star-Crossed, lived up to the promise of that first sentence at the head of this piece, as he looked at her album, making sense of the lyrics and what they say about Kasey´s feelings at the time of writing them. Like all the great music writers, though, he then also looked at what the codes to live by that we might find in the album, where it is coming from with all the clutter of classification in the recording industry and media and how it will impact on all that.

IF ANYONE CAN ROCK, M CLAN CAN

The two musicians strode on, centre-stage, and these ´kids´ erupted, whooping and hollering as if this were The Beatles at Shea Stadium, although I doubt that any of these patrons would understand that reference.
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In Praise Of Those Who Teach

Dad was also at pains to remind me that he and Uncle Sid could both sing and had two voices that harmonised perfectly and that the (non-paying) pub audiences loved them.
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THE RIDDLE OF MUSIC WITH A HEARTBEAT

Riddle was eventually a midlife re-marrier whose second wife wrested everything tangible, at least everything that mattered, away from the children.
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MUSIC IN A QUIET COURTYARD

Today, these craftsmen therefore included more traditional themes such as folias, tajaraste, drum playing and, being in Lanzarote, could not miss the emblematic zaranda and the isa. Abraham and Juan Sebastián explained in detail, each of the themes they interpreted.
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CLASSIFICATION; SIMPLY PERFECT Los Gofiones

Los Gofiones gave us songs of the sun, sea and sand. They sang working songs of what the late Nanci Griffith might have called Trouble In The Fields. The accompaniment was of strings, percussion and woodwind, and often of that incredible hand-clapping rhythm session.