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Mecca for modern music

4560 days ago
Guardian Music — The multi award-winning graduates of Berklee College in the US have expanded the scope of rock, jazz and popRoger Brown, 55, has presided over the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, since 2004. Reputedly the world's top school for "mo... more info
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This week's new live music

4584 days ago
Guardian Music — Lil B, LondonMuch has been made about how Lil B has used social networking to establish himself, but this somehow contrives to concentrate unduly on the frame, all the while ignoring the amazing picture within it. What makes B interesting is the fact... more info
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Teddy Charles

4589 days ago
Guardian Music — Virtuoso vibraphonist, composer and skipper in the CaribbeanTeddy Charles, who has died aged 84, was a virtuoso vibraphonist and a boldly experimental composer. In the 1960s, he temporarily gave up jazz to live on Martinique, where he became one of t... more info
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BBCNOW/Elts – review

4697 days ago
Guardian Music — Hoddinott Hall, CardiffIn the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's first public performance of the year, there was no question of comfort-zone programming. A foxtrot to open may seem like easing an audience in gently, but this was John Adams's The Chair... more info
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Pop at the pictures: How Humphrey Lyttelton paved the way for pop

4698 days ago
Guardian Music — Jon Savage continues his search for forgotten pop-cultural gems in the archives of British Pathe newsreels. Here he explains how Feldman's jazz club set the bar for postwar British youth cultureI missed this on my last trawl through the archives, so ... more info
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Beryl Davis

4751 days ago
Guardian Music — British singer who formed a gospel group with Jane Russell and was a popular presence on radio shows in the UK and the USThe vocalist Beryl Davis, who has died aged 87 from complications caused by Alzheimer's disease, was one of a number of British p... more info
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People: Old-time radio convention meets for last time

4779 days ago
Mercury News, California — For one weekend a year, the ghosts and survivors of Jack Benny, Benny Goodman, Goodman Ace and hundreds of other legends of the old days of radio hold court at a hotel across the road from Newark Airport in New Jersey. more info
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Pop at the pictures: Jitterbugging

4804 days ago
Guardian Music — In the first of a new series, Jon Savage is trawling the archive of British Pathe newsreels to pick out pop cultural gems. He starts in the 30s with the phenomenon of jitterbuggingPathe had a long history of covering club life and dancing trends – ... more info
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The first electric guitar

4907 days ago
Guardian Music — 1932: Number 7 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicIn 1932, a musician called Gage Brewer began performing on one of the first electrically amplified Hawaiian guitars. The idea soon appealed to guitarists rendered almost in... more info
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A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him

4907 days ago
Guardian Music — 1937: Number 11 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicOne night in 1937, a teenage musician called Charlie Parker joined a queue of players waiting to jam onstage at Kansas City's Reno Club. It was a special occasion. A star ... more info
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