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In his memoir Original Rude Boy, Neville Staple devotes a paragraph to the incredible response that Vancouver gave to the Specials on the British band's first American tour opening for the Police. The ska revivalists went over so well with local
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Suggested Topics Saxophonist Larry Stabbins (of Weekend and Working Week) follows up his futuristic Stonephace album with a superb slice of old-school spiritual jazz. It's an acoustic quintet featuring pianist Zoe Rahman, all of whom play with
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June 13, 2012 Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra Theatre Royal Norfolk And Norwich Festival Norwich, UK May 26, 2012 It only took a quick glance at the stage to confirm that this was to be no ordinary jazz gig: Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A
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Terry Hall, Jerry Dammers, Neville Staples, Lynval Golding, John Bradbury, Roddy Radiation and Sir Horace Gentleman on tour in the US for the first time. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Forget for a moment the synchronous outbreak of inner-city rioting
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Massive Attack, anyone?) It was gloomy, dark and dusty - even Terry Hall pointed out how dusty it was, glancing up at the rafters - but it suited the music. Six of the original seven members of The Specials reunited in 2009 and set off on a 30th
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January 26, 2012 Zoe Rahman Kindred Spirits Manushi Records 2012 Holy soul food, Batman! It feels good to listen to a musician who plays from the heart rather than the brain. Not that British pianist Zoe Rahman is deficient in the grey stuff or
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If, as Einstein maintained, the universe is constantly expanding, then Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra may be the ideal vehicle in which to explore its outer limits, this being a characteristic it emulates, with the addition of a string
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Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: +44 (0)20 3353 2000 1 Jerry Dammers, May 1980 This was the launch issue. I had been advised that the Face was too abstract, and I should have the word monthly in the title, and I knew I could find
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You don't need to bend the six degrees of separation theory much to connect the influential Chicago-born composer, saxist and flautist Henry Threadgill to Aaron Copland and Philip Glass . Threadgill's 1960s composition teacher Stella Roberts was
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Buy it from Anthony Joseph is an intriguing multicultural all-rounder. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, but now based in London, he's a poet, novelist and university lecturer, as well as a musician and leader of this wildly eclectic band. His music
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