TOM JONES: a singer Surrounded By Time

he deserves our applause and our gratitude, and it has taken me far too long to recognise that.

EULIS CATHEY : Broadcaster & Record Exec.

While at Verve he also began working as a producer, and in that capacity was a Grammy nominee for his work (co-producing with Bill Cosby) on the 1992 Jimmy Heath album Little Man Big Band.
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OF MEN AND WOMEN AND MICROPHONES

´the mind of man can imagine nothing that has not previously existed´
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LIVE ARTS COMING BACK

it all seems reason for us to be of good cheer and to raise our glasses of wine, g &t, beer or cups of Horlicks, to welcome back, at last, live arts.

FAMILIAR SONGS re- invented in the moment

´This was our ceremony for Leonard Cohen, our funeral, our farewell´, says Klara. ´We tried to imagine that he was in the room when we performed.´

INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY CELEBRATIONS UK: 2021

International Jazz Day is an International Day declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2011 ´to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe´. It is celebrated annually on April 30.

TRAVELS WITH A TROMBONE

´Perhaps some people underestimate the creativity that went into some original jazz masterpieces but working as a band you find out what possible adjustments can be done to make a tune sound right and how to stretch out the bits that are important.´
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NEW WINE FROM OLD BOTTLES

Certainly the lead female dancer of Antionio De La Rosa´s flamenco fusion delivered her steps with a sense of defiance and dominance that was surely making some point about gender issues.

ANDRA DAY & BILLIE AND THE BLUES

an electrifying portrait of a broken artist, often strung out on heroin, fighting back against an FBI that persecuted her relentlessly.

OPEN DAWES TO GREAT MUSIC

a band that should have been on my playlists long before now.