…the classic Cadet recordings of Dorothy Ashby and psychedelic soul arrangements of Charles Stepney (Rotary Connection, Minnie Ripperton, Terry Callier). Performing material from the new album alongside highlights from his back…
…Étienne M’Bappé is one today’s world’s finest bass players, performing with Ray Charles, Salif Keita, Joe Zawinul and many others. John McLaughlin’s impressive personal narrative is much too long to…
…Ray Charles, Bjork, Carlos Santana, Michael Jackson, John Legend, Seal, and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has composed and written songs recorded by artists ranging from Nancy Wilson and Mary…
…my older brother Charles used playing it all the time when I was in high school. The band is composed of such an amazing group of musicians and singers, and…
…up NYE tickets while you still can! Funkadelic – (Not Just) Knee Deep “Ground breaking track with kick arse production. Also gives the DJ time for a piss!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_20BvG3H6DY Charles…
…who opened Zappa’s door for three brothers before he went on to become Ray Charles’ last bass player for well over a decade… As Banned From Utopia, referring to Frank…
…working-class, as immortalised in the literary works of Charles Dickens and Friedrich Engels. Yet, this inequality did sow the seeds for the rise of radical socio-political movements (incl. the Chartists,…
…Brazilian samba’, The Conversation, 2 July 2014, <www.theconversation.com>. Perrone, Charles and Christopher Dunn (eds.), Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001). Reily, Suzel ‘Brazil: Central and…
…2010). Acton, Charles, Irish Music and Musicians (Dublin: Eason and Sons, 1978). Boland, Frederick, ‘Ireland’, Encyclopedia Britannica Online, 2017, <www.britannica.com>. Carolan, Nicholas, ‘Ireland’, Grove Music Online, 2017, <www.oxfordmusiconline.com>. Carson, Ciarán,…
…to a lot of stuff that Don had albums of: Miles Davis, Charles Lloyd, John Coltrane of course… I listened to a lot of jazz back when we went to…
…Charles Mingus before his career really took off with the release of his first album, Introducing Kenny Garrett, in 1984. His music is very much open to outside influences and, as…
…the first Stiff Records tour of the UK, Chaz Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy, Charlie Charles, John Turnbull and Mick Gallagher became known as ‘The Blockheads’. In 1978, they released ‘What a…
…Boom Klack 03 Dele Sosimi – Lady 04 Charles Bradley – I Believe in Your Love 05 Kirsty Almeida – Cool Down Rewind 06 Azymuth – Club Morocco 07 Snarky…
…Reece-organised NYC Jazz Festival took place. Free entry performances were held at Damrosch park, within Citicorp and the Lincoln Centre – performers including Clifford Jordan, Charles Davis and Tommy Turrentine…
…Over time Sun Ra included me in carrying out some of the Arkestra’s responsibilities. Was it a difficulty joining a group with established players like Marshall Allen, Charles Davis and…
…young guitarist with a broad spectrum of artists such as Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, B.B. King, Frank Sinatra, Simon & Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Peggy…