Topic: Georgie Fame
Herbie Hancock, admirably well-preserved at 70, is much like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. His latest festival shows are based on The Imagine Project, a shameless crossover album featuring songs by John Lennon, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Last night's ...
This year, 1967, marked the launch of the second British Invasion of America. Many of the groups ?crossing over? came from the British Blues scene that started a few years earlier. (There were inklings of the sound before, like ?Go Now? by ...
So I am sitting in the Chiswick branch of Soho House - High Road House - and, stone me, if Georgie Fame doesn't walk in and park himself at a table nearby. So when I delivered Signal Red, my latest novel, which is ...
POP THE DEAD WEATHER Horehound (Columbia) **** Marriage to supermodel Karen Elson and subsequent fatherhood have done nothing to curb Jack White's restlessness. More remarkable still is that White continues to have his finger firmly on the quality-control button. The side-project of ...
Sixties über-swinger and inhaler of thousands of cubic yards of nightclub smoke, much of it exotic if not toxic, Georgie Fame is ageing remarkably well. Trumpeter Gerard Presencer's youthful 16-piece band, drawn from NYJO and the Guildhall and Royal Academy jazz ...
