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

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New Journal of the Plague Year As lockdown was imposed, Welsh writer Nigel Jarrett began, at his home in Abergavenny,…

  Anglo-Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace has long been standard-bearer for Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, who himself has long been resident in…