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Reissue CDs Weekly: Wes Montgomery - The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings | reviews, news & interviews Reissue CDs Weekly: Wes Montgomery - The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings Reissue CDs Weekly: Wes Montgomery - The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings Live recordings from 1965 are a footnote in the jazz guitarist’s discography by Kieron TylerSunday, 11 April 2021 Speaking to America’s Hit Parader magazine in August 1967, Frank Zappa said “If you want to learn how to play guitar, listen to Wes Montgomery.” The article was titled My Favorite Records and the head Mother was being fe...

Jane Manning: always amenable and a friend to composers whatever their demands Credit: Magnus-Lewinska, Mayotte/ Bridgeman Images  Jane Manning, who has died aged 82, was the go-to British soprano for contemporary music and an indispensable friend to many modern composers, giving the first performances of more than 350 works by the likes of Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle and her husband Anthony Payne. The critic Edward Greenfield wrote in awe of how she was able to defy the laws of musical gravity when tackling avant-garde music’s craggy altitudes. Where many singers would be...

Festival of New, Britten Pears Arts, review, plus the best of February’s classical & opera 2/5 Letty Stott (far left) at Britten Pears Arts' Festival of New Credit: Beki Smith/Britten Pears Arts  Britten Pears Arts is best-known to the public for the annual Aldeburgh Festival, but it’s also one of the most generous patrons in the land. Every year it offers residencies to groups of artists and musicians who are burning to create a work of art together, and need space and time to work on it. At Britten Pears Arts they get to do it in the beautiful surroundings of Snape Maltings, Suffolk, ...