If you knew nothing about it beforehand and were led into a theatre to see Robert Shearman’s tragi-comic two-hander White…

Subverting or undermining the so-called American Dream has been both easy and inviting, not least for Americans themselves, with their…

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Black Mountain Jazz club’s piano was sidelined and partly hiding behind drapes at the start of its latest gig, which…

Before the 1960s – and a while after that in most places – a jazz piano trio consisted of a…

Abergavenny Borough Theatre Mid Wales Opera is like many other touring companies in scaling down for relatively small venues those…

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By all accounts, no doubt fostered by those with ideas of making a profit from them, big bands are on…

**** Cellist Shirley Smart has helped extend the number of unusual instruments that find a home in jazz, but she…