An interview with Elson Nascimento of the Sun Ra Arkestra
…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…
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Just announced: Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin, 9th July
…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…
Just announced: The Blockheads, 10th September.
…album ‘New Boots and Panties’ on 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…
Guide to the Week of Music: Mr Scruff, Imarhan, new sounds and visuals
…Charles Bradley. It’s almost 12 months since the vocalist’s passing at the age of 68, following a career resurgence that saw him go from James Brown impersonator to internationally-acclaimed solo…
Guide to the Week of Music: New Tutenkhamen, Mark Lockheart, new sounds and visuals
…rhythmic elements also feeding into this sound. The release is incredibly rare, despite a song from it being fairly well known in Zimbabwe. As label founder Charles Houdart explained to…
Just announced: Little Barrie, 12th June.
…Charles Bradley, Dinosaur Jnr, Kasabian and Primal Scream. It’s safe to say Little Barrie have their admirers. On first hearing the band, Edwyn Collins offered to produce their first album,…
Huey Morgan: ‘When I do what I love, the love spreads’
…over the last 20 years.’ Your discussion of Ray Charles’ What I’d Say and its importance during your formative years for Hope and Homes for children’s ‘End the Silence’ campaign…
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…Awards, Best Venue Team 2017 – Live UK Music Business Awards, Best Venue Team 2018 – City Life, Best Clubnight (Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club) 2019 – City Life,…
Classical Music
…felt in orchestras and ensembles, musical clubs and societies.70 Further foundations for the future excellence of ‘classical’ music-making in Manchester were laid by the German-born pianist and conductor Sir Charles…
The Street Scene
…(1919) by Fred W Leigh & Charles Collins *The Tipperary song was also the most popular at sing-alongs at the pub in the 1940s, according to Mrs Anne Garner, nee…
Music Halls
…‘Oh What a Happy Land is England’, by Charles Godfrey, 1887. ‘Songs about leisure activities were popular and drinking was the one activity in which all levels of society could…
Ancoats Brotherhood
A well-intentioned initiative to introduce ‘serious’ music to the streets of Ancoats – ‘presumably to soothe the savage breasts’71 – was launched by the Ancoats Brotherhood, founded by Charles Rowley…