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I visited this exhibition last week and was very impressed. The paintings are incredibly familiar ( at least, the 60s pop art pictures) but to see them full size in a gallery is a monumental experience. They are huge. This is what gives them their power. Lichtenstein has been accused of being shallow and…
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJUOxWf0rY&w=560&h=315] I went to see the movie Zero Dark Thirty last week and it made me think a lot. All I knew before I went was that it was about the search for Bin Laden and was nominated for several Oscars (which it didn’t get apart from an award for sound editing shared…
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This is a cover version of me playing jazz classic Lullaby of Birdland by George Shearing featuring Jenny Carter on violin. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/76169845″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
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In the past few weeks I have been reading widely about the 1960s Counterculture both here and in America. This interest was inspired by two things. Writing an account of My Life in Music, which included my experience of the Counterculture in Leicester, and visiting an exhibition of sculptures by Francis Upritchard at Nottingham…
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The other day I came across a review of this album on the Guardian web site. Written by Alex Macpherson it is almost totally negative. There is a link to it here: Bob Dylan’s song about the Titanic makes you wish you’d been on board The article shows an almost appalling lack of knowledge…
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