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“You're young and growing and I'm old and going. So have your fun while you can…” Added recently to the Roll of Honour, opposite is ...

The search for quality music inevitably gets bound up in the search for quality sound. I do not have the budget to indulge my hi-fi tastes t...

January 23 last, a couple of weeks ago saw the sixty eighth anniversary of Duke Ellington’s first concert at Carnegie Hall. Centre piece of ...

Barrie Lee Hall, trumpet player invited whilst still a college to join Duke Ellington's orchestra, has died at the age of sixty one year...

A recent hard drive crash has meant the temporary loss - amongst other things - of a cache of photographs and documents I intended to publis...

I could wish for a happier reason to share this film of Dr Billy Taylor , playing Perdido  in conjunction with Willie 'The Lion' Smi...

Clark Terry! Clark Terry!   Thank you for Clark Terry , the ninetieth anniversary of whose birth falls today. Birthday wishes can be left at...