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The making of Paradise Road – Joy recording 1979/80 By Greg Cutler Greg has kindly given me his in the room story of that famous recording, Greg did the work. The story begins sometime in late 1978 early 1979.  Patric Van Blerk, who was on a sabbatical from the music industry at the time, had shown a…

Still only 23, the US saxophonist is channelling the free jazz pioneered by Albert Ayler in the 60s – and making hugely profound, wildly uplifting music

Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski are brilliantly believable in Ira Sachs’s exploration of a gay marriage that’s challenged when one partner has a passionate affair with a young woman

A torrid, gripping drama that economically picks apart a doomed ménage à trois

As-Shams has a 60-year history as SA's first Black-owned record label, founded by music producer Rashid Vally from a corner of his father's general store in central Johannesburg.

The legendary As-Shams jazz label has released the first of several compilation albums recovered from its archive.

Articles by Liam Brickhill.

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