Georgie Fame: the man in full
Georgie Fame at the Cinnamon Club, Manchester, in 2007 (photo: William Ellis) You wait decades for a proper anthology of Georgie Fame’s best stuff, and then two of them come along almost at once. Last...
View ArticleOur Island Story
To those who found Chris Blackwell’s 2022 autobiography, The Islander, long on charm but, shall we say, short on detail, The Island Book of Records Vol 1 1959-68 will be the answer to their prayers....
View Article‘The Black Chord’
David Corio is a fine British photographer whose book The Black Chord, with text by the writer Vivien Goldman, first appeared in the UK 25 years ago. A new edition, published by Hat & Beard, a Los...
View ArticleAutumn books 1: Joe Boyd
“Tango comes from the mud,” Brian Eno told an audience at Foyle’s bookshop the other night. He was conducting a public conversation with the author of And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, an 850-page...
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