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...The novel reaches across time all the way to troubled Eiríkur in the 2020s, once a jazz-blues guitarist in Marseille but now moodily back on the family farm....
...population had long augmented the city’s classical music community, the migration after the Kristallnacht attacks against Jewish-owned businesses and synagogues in Germany in 1938 brought a new wave of jazz...
...Terence Blanchard: A Career Retrospective in Jazz will be performed at the Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, featuring guest musicians, on 1 and 2 March at 8pm, jazz.org...
...June 14 to July 27; further information and tickets here Jazz & Image, Parco del Celio From July to mid-October, the Parco del Celio hosts this festival organised by Rome’s Alexanderplatz Jazz Club....
...The way the festival squared the circle, though, between past and present, with historical precedents and influences leapfrogging each other, was invigorating....
...UK music is well represented, from new south London jazz labels like 22a to historical dub, ska and reggae that tell the melting pot stories of London.”...
...A third archetype, of the hypersexual Jezebel, is embodied by Josephine Baker in jazz-age Paris....
...Date to be announced; further information here Sumida Street Jazz Festival Sumida will be host to hordes of jazz lovers as musicians perform in venues across the neighbourhood....
...This year’s edition focuses on the gaps in historical archives....
...The Fraud by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin) Plot twist: Zadie Smith’s latest is her first historical novel, an evocation of Victorian London that draws on the real-life court case of a fraudster...
...February 10 to April 6; further information here Jazz in the Gardens, Hard Rock Stadium One of the world’s key live jazz and R&B festivals returns for its 17th edition, with soul, funk, Afrobeats and gospel...
...June 29 to July 6; further information and tickets here Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen’s long-standing annual celebration of all things jazz, with performances filling the streets, parks and venues...
...During our conversation, Richter speaks in a way that mirrors his multi-faceted paintings — bursting with profanities, analogies, dark humour and references to different artists and historical periods....
...There’s historical romance to Offer’s home, but it’s underlined by a strict, modern pragmatism. Everywhere function leads form....
...He made works to jazz and popular music, working with Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington and Edith Piaf....
...Spats, scandals and seductions unroll like a conveyor-belt of fruity, lurid Jazz Age cocktails. To enjoy it best: sip, don’t gulp....
...There are elements of post-punk as well as rockabilly, hip-hop, hardcore and jazz — Marshall grew up listening to Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Pharoah Sanders....
...The historic grande dame of lodgings in the city, with its distinctive neon sign and copper roof, has marked the skyline for nearly a century (Europeans, adjust your historical timelines: that’s a long time...
...It makes for a novel approach that has deep historical roots. Trumpeter Marquis Hill and alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins are, like the leader, established musicians with projects of their own....
...The storied area conjures up images of the swinging ’60s, Carnaby Street punks, Ronnie Scott’s jazz club and seedy sex shops....
...Ethan Wu Yeah, And just to add a little bit of context there, Carl Riccadonna, who’s a great economist over at BNP Paribas, has made the point that 100,000 is the average historical pace at which low payrolls...
...We hear a lot about the past through historical accounts and they’re often from the mouth of the establishment, or whatever the dominant class is....
...The culture that produced the Jazz Age shouldn’t have been able to take and hold Guadalcanal. Each month, I expect to see western exhaustion with Ukraine. Each month, the support persists....
...Yet crucially he said the aim was the same as any art movement: “all historical styles have striven towards this single goal: to manifest the universal.”...
...One of the ironies of architecture is that the simplest of forms can provoke the most profound symbolic, historical, personal and emotional associations....
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