Hints and tips:
...The rhythm section of bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Marvin “Smitty” Smith is exemplary and the album’s heavyweight cast give acoustic jazz a twist....
...In the early 1960s, the American psychologist Marvin Eisenstadt embarked on a long-term project to “explain the development of those who mould civilisation”....
...Her father, Rupert, who died in 2021, was a captain in the Grenadier Guards, who later ran a medical mission as an aid worker in Afghanistan....
...There’s lovely, snappy detail from Danny Collins and Alex Young as comic performers who long to be taken seriously, and both pain and warmth from Sandra Marvin as the cook, Queenie....
...However, that project must have been finely balanced economically for a bust-up with the plant’s awkward squad to nix it....
...More Than Just A Game: Football v Apartheid by US academic Chuck Korr and British writer Marvin Close (Collins, $31.77) is billed as “the most important football story ever told”....
...Paul Morley recreates the sounds of Gilbert’s glory days If you’d bought an album in 1969, you might have chosen one of the greatest of all time – Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica – or Nick Drake’...
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