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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

It's International Jazz Day

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Happy and all that for UNESCO's International Jazz Day, but since I either listen to, think or write (sometimes even dream) about jazz e...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Denzil Best's "Move"

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Denzil Best pictured by Bill Gottlieb Yesterday was the birthday of Denzil Best (1917-1965) a musician whose life was sadly defined by ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Billie Holiday, Club Bali... and the Internet

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It’s funny how some people sometimes long for the great filters of olden days, when there was no internet, from record producers and publici...
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Monday, April 7, 2014

Kit Downes & Tom Challenger: Wedding Music live at Royal Festival Hall

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The Royal Festival Hall is hosting an organ season to celebrate the culmination of the three-year long refurbishment works to bring back i...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Portrait of Cecil Taylor as a young man

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Playing the music(s) we call jazz is not an easy life, neither regarding the art itself, nor as a way to make a living. The reasons for anyo...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Paco de Lucía: an introduction in tangos, and a PS

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In the obituaries devoted to Paco de Lucía, the comments have focused on his adventures beyond Flamenco and its fusion with other musics, b...
Monday, March 3, 2014

RIP Francisco Sánchez

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Francisco Sánchez, a/k/a Paco de Lucía (picture: ABC ) Francisco Sánchez's passing will leave us without new adventures of Paco de ...
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