Jazz saxophonist and composer Benny Golson has died. He was 95. The Associated Press reported that Golson died at his Manhattan home after a short illness. His agent did not disclose what the illness ...
and started playing the piano when he was ten, initially in a boogie-woogie style. But it was when he first heard jazz – in particular Jimmie Lunceford’s orchestra – at the age of 11 that he ...
“Horace put the fun back in the music,” wrote jazz piano great Mike LeDonne, upon Silver’s death in 2014. “His was an approach that put dance up front once again like the old days but ...
Jean Martyn (BGT Finalist 2011) will be at First Lisburn Presbyterian Church on Friday 20th September to give a concert to raise funds for the R.N.L.I.