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This Proms concert was dedicated to the songs on the three albums that Nick Drake recorded in his short life. It was a fitting tribute to the legacy of his music, 50 years on from his death at the age of 26, [...]
Allow me to suggest why this album, so extrovert, exuberant and life-enhancing, carries a poignant postscript. Sometime during 1968, 70-year-old Louis (always ‘Lewis’, not ‘Lou-ee’) Daniel Armstrong, internationally celebrated as ‘Satchmo’, is warned by doctors that he’s no longer superhuman [...]
Alto saxophonist Sam Braysher has a liking for the less familiar work of the American Songbook composers, a body of music that’s seldom performed in the twenty-first century and rarely heard played by jazz musicians. This doesn’t mean that it [...]
