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Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves: Dedicated to You review – eloquent Coltrane tribute
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Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves: Dedicated to You review – eloquent Coltrane tribute

(Blue Note)This elegant contemporary reinvention of 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman pairs Marsalis’s post-bop sax with Reeves’ agile vocals, to time-stopping effectIn the early 1960s, the...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Jess Williamson: A Mile South of Heaven review – alt-country singer’s love-hate affair with LA
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Jess Williamson: A Mile South of Heaven review – alt-country singer’s love-hate affair with LA

(New West)Following 2023 breakout Time Ain’t Accidental, the best songs here are when Williamson strips back country music, rebuilding it as something familiar yet differentIn her essay Goodbye to All...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist
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Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist

Exclusive: Theresa Musgrove unearths newspaper archives showing one Alice Shepherd was severely punished in 1836 for similarly innocent requestCould a consumptive young woman called Alice Shepherd hav...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
‘It gave me a superpower – question everything’: ​as punk turns 50, bands from China to Greenland explain how it fires up their lives
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‘It gave me a superpower – question everything’: ​as punk turns 50, bands from China to Greenland explain how it fires up their lives

Whether on the frontline in Ukraine or skate parks in Soweto, the genre is still a vital outlet for disaffected people everywhere. Here, musicians explain how they rage against the machineAndriy Zholo...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Music group with learning difficulties fulfils late MP's Broadway dream
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Music group with learning difficulties fulfils late MP's Broadway dream

The Music Man Project is a charity in Essex that teaches music to people with learning disabilities.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Why did Dolly Parton record a song in Welsh?
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Why did Dolly Parton record a song in Welsh?

The cover of smash-hit Jolene, with Welsh and English lyrics, is released on Friday.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Olivia Colman on viral Wicker memes: 'This has never happened to me before'
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Olivia Colman on viral Wicker memes: 'This has never happened to me before'

Steamy jokes have flooded social media ahead of the release of the actress's latest film.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Emotions run high at the round table as Celebrity Traitors banish two players
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Emotions run high at the round table as Celebrity Traitors banish two players

Viewers watched to see whether Richard E Grant could save himself at the first round table of the series.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Troye Sivan: She’s the Best review – a strange, singular pop star who deserves to be multiplatinum
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Troye Sivan: She’s the Best review – a strange, singular pop star who deserves to be multiplatinum

(Interscope)Adored by the A-list and filling arenas, but without huge smash hits, the Australian singer treads his own distinctive path through pop via shoegaze, Balearic and the SmithsA few years bac...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Katie Price 'angry' when told of ex's rape claim
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Katie Price 'angry' when told of ex's rape claim

The complainant's mother tells court Price "was quite angry" when told about about the allegations.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Outspoken Indian actor Nana Patekar dies suddenly at 75
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Outspoken Indian actor Nana Patekar dies suddenly at 75

Known for his intense performances, Patekar carved out a distinctive place in Indian cinema.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Welsh actress follows in footsteps of Florence Pugh and Benedict Cumberbatch
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Welsh actress follows in footsteps of Florence Pugh and Benedict Cumberbatch

Leisa Gwenllian says she forgot she applied for the 2026 Stars of Tomorrow talent programme.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Black and African cinema hub opens in London
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Black and African cinema hub opens in London

EbonyLife Place London is the brainchild of Nollywood media mogul Mo Abudu.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
BBC axes long-running Radio 4 show You and Yours in push towards podcasts
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BBC axes long-running Radio 4 show You and Yours in push towards podcasts

Thinking Allowed, The Artificial Human and Free Thinking among other programmes hit by £500m cutsBBC Radio 4’s consumer rights show You and Yours is to be axed after more than 50 years, becoming one o...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
'Bold and inventive' Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Literature Prize
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'Bold and inventive' Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Literature Prize

Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Fierce, frantic and loaded with menace: Fontaines DC’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
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Fierce, frantic and loaded with menace: Fontaines DC’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ahead of the Irish alt-rockers’ highly anticipated fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, we count down their potent, occasionally political, catalogueA single inspired by the birth of guitarist Carlos O’Conn...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Dafydd Owain’s second album wins the 2026 Welsh music prize
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Dafydd Owain’s second album wins the 2026 Welsh music prize

Ymarfer Byw, which was praised for its ‘musical excellence’, beat 14 other albums to the prize of £10,000Singer-songwriter Dafydd Owain has won the 2026 Welsh music prize with his second album Ymarfer...

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Cavern Club sold to new owners after 35 years
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Cavern Club sold to new owners after 35 years

John Lennon's sister, Julia Baird, one of the previous owners, says it is being left "in good hands".

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
Gaten Matarazzo on life after Stranger Things as he makes West End debut
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Gaten Matarazzo on life after Stranger Things as he makes West End debut

The actor opens up about finding his way in the West End as he makes his debut in a revival of Rent.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago
How a folk band, football club and Fifa 11 came together for an unlikely terrace anthem
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How a folk band, football club and Fifa 11 came together for an unlikely terrace anthem

After playing a bit of Fifa 11, Kingfishr leader singer Eddie Keogh posted a song in tribute to English League One club Wycombe Wanderers.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 month ago