Broad Oak Magazine

This week’s music comes from the Dave Brubeck Quartet. David Warren Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a f...

Last week Mr Sackerson asked me how many musicians adopted the name Jelly Roll. I don’t know and I don’t suppose anyone else does. But I do ...

Singer-songwriter Jelly Roll is known for hit songs like “Need a Favor,” “Save Me,” and “I Am Not Okay.” Unafraid to embrace an underdog per...

This is what my parents’ generation listened to on the radio; Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra. I’m not sure but I think Hall might h...

Eric Shi hails from what one might consider the least likely place to find bluegrass music. He was raised in China’s Zhejiang Province, and ...

I had almost forgotten what day it was with the World Cup altering the timings of everything. But luckily today is also ‘bin day’ so I was r...

Henry Roeland “Roy” Byrd (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980), better known as Professor Longhair or “Fess” for short, was an American sin...

Award-winning Santa Fe-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Martha Reich has performed at venues around the world. Her music t...

A selection of music in celebration of football’s World Cup, 2026... Barrett Strong - Money (That’s What I Want) (Lyric Video) Pink Floyd - ...

Hamilton Camp was a British-born actor and singer, who relocated to the United States with his family when he was a young child. He is known...

And some more golden oldies from this ageing baby boomer reminiscing about the good old days when life made more sense and there was such a ...

I see we have been here before when I did a post of music ‘The Likely Lads’ would have been listening to in their younger days - https://the...

A front page article in The Times says a study from Cornell University shows that people who are taken in by ‘corporate bullshit’ tend to b...

 “Creativity grows out of two things; curiosity and imagination” - Benny Goodman. Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist an...

This is the music of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. It may not be to everyone’s liking but when I first heard it about 30 years ago it ‘gr...

 “Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American pianist who was the greatest jazz composer and bandleader ...

  In this post JD argues that the threat of AI is overstated - but we wonder whether it may narrow the gap between the blue collar and the w...

Skiffle is a DIY, high-energy music genre blending folk, blues, and jazz, originating in 1920s America but surging in 1950s Britain. Popular...

This post began life as a rumination on languages in general but my mind works in mysterious ways and it drifted off into wondering why and ...

Clannad were an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal, by siblings Ciarán, Pól and Máire Uí Bhraonáin and their twin uncles ...