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In 1971 jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, leading an all-star band that included bassist Charles Mingus, drummer Roy Haynes, and sax experimentalist Archie Shepp. The invitation grew out of the Jazz &amp...

This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival is as expansive as ever, boasting an impressive Cannes pull as well as a solid array of rarities. In this Staff Picks piece, our writing team goes through the festival program and picks out some of the...

Where Are We Now? The Wall was probably the most famous structure that will ever stand in Berlin…and if a monument can be decommissioned, that is apparently what happened to it. Brian Ladd. We Were Like a Museum Exhibit. Title of a Wolf Vostell ...

Happy Birthday this week to: Jun 12 1909 ● Archie Bleyer → Bandleader, pop recording artist (“The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane”, #26, 1954), producer (The Everly Brothers), Cadence Records owner (Andy Williams, The Chordettes, Johnny Tillotson, Lenny...

Ever since their 1968 LP debut, This Was, Ian Anderson and his ever-changing band Jethro Tull have been very good to us. Other than longtime guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with Anderson since 1969, Jethro Tull has been a hard group to pigeonhole...