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Vivian Stanshall has an indisputable place among the Great English Eccentrics. I first met him at St. Martins School Of Art. He was part of the ban-the-bomb-bird raver subculture of trad jazz and Victoriana. The dumb commercial end was Acker Bilk; the Temperance Seven were smarter, but still a commercial novelty. Stanshall, however, was in the totally bizarre Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, whose Dadaist jazz and Roger Ruskin Spear’s surreal robots made them unwitting precursors of steampunk....

Sixty years ago this year Town won the top division, so if you look upon your relationship with Ipswich Town as some sort of marriage this year marks the diamond jubilee of that remarkable achievement.

The many names and places that made the Port City in the 1960s are still fond memories today.

The Festive Jazz Café, the Festival of Chichester’s special seasonal treat of words and music which is usually held in historic St John’s Chapel, is going online this year because of the current concerns about live events.

A JAZZ promoter known as "Uncle Bonny" has died aged 91.

TRIBUTES to Gay McIntyre record a man with an enormous talent, considered one of the greatest jazz musicians Ireland has ever produced.

From white feathers to birds, readers tell Eimear OHagan about signs their loved ones send from the other side

Derry music legend, Gay McIntyre’s “remarkable life” was remembered at a funeral mass held at St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry this mornin...

The alto sax and clarinet player enthralled fans with a career spanning more than 70 years.

Mayor Warke leads tributes to jazz legend who died aged 88