Thelonious Monk - ‘Mønk’
Lost Thelonious Monk live recording from 1963 due for first-ever release on 28th September via Gearbox Records
News of a previously unreleased recording by any of jazz’s ‘holy trinity’ is a reason to get excited. Now two have come along in the space of a few months, for hot on the heels of [...]

Z. Music By Mikis Theodorakis. 1969
Even the greatest films ever made could not survive intact without a soundtrack. It could even be said that with a great film comes a great soundtrack and visa versa. The film’s music has to work in reflecting mood, anticipating danger, emphasising love and hate, help build to a climax [...]

After suffering a seizure while riding his bike to work in February 1996, Rainer Ptacek was diagnosed with a brain tumor in February 1996. He described his frustrating symptoms to his friend, Fred Mills:
“You know, these” — Rainer held up his hands and nodded at them — “know where they want to go. They remember [...]

On reading Solzhenitsyn’s short novel One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich (based on the author’s experiences incarcerated in Stalin’s labour camps), a loudly dressed lady with a gold ring said, “I don’t like this story, it’s too depressing.” A former inmate replied, “It’s better to have the bitter truth than a sweet lie.”
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I cannot remember a worse year. The BBC continues to increase its dominance and influence in UK’s music industry and on public tastes. This (wholly publicly funded) corporation now even has its own annual music awards featuring, of course, the music its committees choose to playlist on their mainstream stations, to the exclusion of most [...]