“Why even bother?”: The artist Pete Townshend couldn’t come close to
“Pure expression of the soul.”
Jazz
‘Four Women’: The Nina Simone song that inspired generations of artists
Thus began a string of albums explicitly informed by her work with the civil rights movement.
Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer, dead at 84
He was best known for his hit single ‘Everybody Loves The Sunshine’.
‘Wyatting’: The story of how a Robert Wyatt album was used to empty pubs
The album that terrorised pubs across the country.
Salena Jones: the trailblazing jazz vocalist who fled racism in the USA
One of jazz’s brightest stars.
