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Wendy Kirkland Quartet: Black Mountain Jazz Club
Chris Byars, the New York saxophonist, composer and band leader, was displaying the jazz musician’s hard-nosed realism when he opined...
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Author: Nigel Jarrett
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Chop Idols at Black Mountain Jazz
Miles Kington famously remarked that he travelled from Wales to London for jazz, only to discover that jazz had decamped...
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Nye & Jennie, Theatr Na Nóg, Metropole, Abertillery
One wonders if author Meredydd Barker was aware of any irony in choosing the title Nye & Jennie for his...
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Not About Heroes, Flying Bridge Theatre Company, Borough Theatre, Abergavenny
There are at least two stories going on in Stephen Macdonald’s 35-year-old drama about the Great War and its effect...
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Geoff Eales and Ashley John Long, A History of Jazz Piano, Melville Centre, Abergavenny
The history of jazz is the history of jazz musicians. Not composers, in a sense which separates the two. Jazz...
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Nigel Jarrett asks: Are we really still stereotyping the Welsh “mam”?
In the Wales Arts Review, Siobhan Denton is revisiting the idea of Welsh female stereotypes identified by the historian Deirdre...
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Dunkirk, director: Christopher Nolan
Iconic moments in history rarely tell the whole story and sometimes embody a lie or an unpleasant truth which a...