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‘There was no one better’: Peruvian singer finally takes her place among all-time greats

She was compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Now, fifty years after her death, Lucha Reyes finds a new audience

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

‘When it hits a low C, it takes you to another dimension’: the musicians in love with obscure instruments

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2023

Zahra Newman on becoming Billie Holiday: ‘I want people to feel how they do when they listen to her’

The Jamaican-born Australian performer delivers an uncanny evocation of the jazz singer in an upcoming cabaret set during the last year of Holiday’s life

The Guardian - AU · Aug 15, 2023

Deborah Jane’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Film Revisits The Past To Fix The Future In Racial Reconciliation

Jane understands the importance of locating the problem to get to the solution. 

Zenger · May 1, 2023

Turning 96, Chicago jazz guitarist George Freeman is still playing and about to release a new record

To celebrate his birthday, Freeman and his band are playing two shows at the Green Mill in Uptown.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 4, 2023

How to spend a day in Fells Point, Baltimore’s seafood-loving, historic neighbourhood

With the oldest saloon in the US, iconic seafood stops and a reimagined 18th-century market, the Maryland ’hood offers the perfect blend of old and new, writes Richard Franks

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2023

Women who rock: as a new Sky documentary launches, we look at its pick of music’s female pioneers

Ahead of Sky’s new documentary about female artists, we take a look at those, from Nancy Wilson to Chaka Khan, who made waves on and off-stage

Evening Standard · Feb 15, 2023

Intimate portrait of Billie Holiday emerges in Mercury Theater’s multifaceted ‘Lady Day’

Running at the snug Mercury Theater’s Venus Cabaret space, “Lady Day” stands as a showcase for Holiday and the actress playing her, Alexis J. Roston.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 8, 2023

50 years ago, these were the No. 1 albums of 1973 (and a few other classics, too)

In 1973 the album charts got weird. Sure, there were classic albums by iconic artists such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Elton John that topped the charts that year. Two different ones in Elton’s case.

The Orange County Register · Jan 5, 2023

How Tyler Perry offered a 2-word theme and songwriter Ruth B. brought tears to his eyes

In the Jim Crow South of the 1930s and '40s, in poor, rural Georgia, forbidden love struggles up through the briars. The teens, Bayou and Leanne, find they can be together only in the dead of night, signaling each other with paper planes. The message received, they head for their…

Los Angeles Times · Nov 30, 2022