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A JAZZ lover who has organised performances at Goring village hall for 21 years has decided to retire. John Calvert, 79, has arranged the monthly concerts on Fr...

BEING a young teenager in early 1960s Brighton was great fun and every year was different.

The Beatles' George Harrison asked a rock star an interesting question before getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Wyn Drabble: Still in search of penguins 19 May, 2021 06:00 PM 4 minutes to read Wyn Drabble is on the lookout for penguins. Photo / NZME NZ Herald In his book Land of Two Halves, Joe Bennett said, "Oamaru is Timaru with penguins." Well, not any more. Timaru has its own penguins and they are at the port end of Caroline Bay. Timarus penguins even have a website and from it I learned all the collective terms that can be used for penguins. I cant vouch for their accuracy but Im w...

Mac on black 45 Views Original mods liked jazz. That’s where the word came from: modernism. In Britain, the beef between mods and rockers had been prefigured in the 50s by modernists – fans of modern jazz – vs traditionalists – acolytes of trad, Dad. I don’t know if this amounted to bike chains on Margate beach (BAM! SOCK! WHAM! THAT’S FOR PLAYING 42 CHORUSES OF TIGER RAG!) but the argument was heartfelt. I’m not quite old enough to remember this in person, but my musica...

Anne Hailes with jazz musician Chris Barber 13 March, 2021 01:00 WHEN your hero dies, it hurts. All the years of admiration, memories, loving and losing, crowd into your mind and I have such memories in spades following the death of jazz man extraordinaire Chris Barber. I’m of the generation when Dixieland dominated our lives. The names are legendary now: Chriss wife, blues singer Ottilie Patterson; Kenny Ball; Acker Bilk; Jackie Flavelle; Lonnie Donegan; even Van Mor...

Christopher Timbrell   SIR – One sad repercussion from the Oprah Winfrey interview is the long-term effect on the Sussexes’ children. Meghan came from a broken family, but in attacking Harry’s family she has prevented Archie and his sibling having the affinity that Harry had with his cousins and wider family. Harry describes his father and brother as “trapped”. He seems to be confusing this with them carrying out the duties that are expected of them. It was clear from seeing the wide...

Remembering the man who brought the Beatles and the Bee Gees to the Borders by Loudon Temple A SCOT who brought some of the biggest names in pop and rock north of the Border, is to be honoured as “Scotland’s first impresario,” over fifty years after he died. The MacArts Centre in Galashiels has already been set up in the memory of Duncan Mackinnon – a legendary character who dedicated his life to keeping teenagers happy in the rock n roll era and Swinging Sixties. He had served ...

Chris Barber Dead At 90 Chris Barber, was one of the ‘Three Bs’ – along with Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball – who are considered to have defined traditional British jazz and led the ‘Trad’ revival of the 1950s and 1960s – and he died “peacefully in his sleep” after suffering with dementia, his record label The Last Music Company confirmed in a tribute post on its website. A post was also made on the official Twitter account of The Last Music Company, which read: “BRITISH JAZZ GIA...

Chris Barber obituary John Fordham © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Getty Images The bandleader and trombonist Chris Barber, who has died aged 90, was one of the most accessible and charismatic figures to emerge from the New Orleans-inspired jazz revivalist movement that played such a significant part in shaping British popular music between the late 1940s and mid-60s. As a bandleader he began by taking the cornettist Ken Colyer’s rugged, fundamentalist proto-jazz rev...