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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Vibrations In The Village & Live At The Penthouse
Rahsaan Roland Kirk fans – this is the winter for you. He’s one of the most extraordinary musical figures of the last 70 years, a gifted multi-instrumentalist and political animal, a blind man who detested the word ‘jazz’, became one of Charlie Mingus’s most trusted collaborators and yet arguably achieved his greatest fame for playing […]
Larry Coryell 1943-2017
On 8 November 2016, the day after America voted to make Donald Trump the next president of the US, guitar legend Larry Coryell – who has died of heart failure – told Downbeat magazine’s Bill Milkowski: ‘Now that Trump is in, we’re going to make good on our promise to move to either Germany or […]
Sounds Of Surprise 