Friday, March 03, 2017

Friday Night Is Music Night: A Celtic Miscellany, by JD

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A selection of traditional music this evening: JD's curtain-raiser is a traditional Irish song, "Siúil a Rún" (Go, My Love) ...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Thelonious Monk, a survey by Wiggia

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Yes, that was his real name and his middle name was Sphere. largely self-taught, he toured with evangelists in his teens playing the organ, ...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

Friday Night Is Music Night: Musical Balm, by JD

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Photograph taken in Barter Books, which is in the old railway station in Alnwick "All thing shall be well;..... Thou shalt see thy...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Java Jazz Man: The Genius Of Charles Mingus, by Wiggia

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Almost all of the current jazz musicians have been influenced by the past, some more than others. Indeed some despite their own fame could a...
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What is the matter with Hugo Rifkind? Three competitions.

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Is Hugo Rifkind seeing things? Another précis challenge, this time of Hugo Rifkind's latest in the Spectator magazine: http://...
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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Flynn's firing: part of Trump's deception plan against Democrat-supporting spooks?

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The dismissal of President Trump's National Security Adviser, Lt-Gen. Michael Flynn, is a smokescreen hiding a successful operation to i...
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Friday, February 17, 2017

Friday Night Is Music Night: Sudamericanos, by JD

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This week we have a Latin American flavour! (Programme notes at the end.) ____________________________________ Notes: ...