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Walking on water: A selection of newly restored films make clear the continuing relevance of the work of Lorenza Mazetti, a long-unheralded artist who exerted a strong influence on her peers in Britain’s Free Cinema movement of the 1950s and ’60s ....
Van Morrison has used another Belfast stage to attack the Government’s Covid-19 lockdown policies, which he says stopped him and other musicians from working at the height of the pandemic. ....
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Chris Barber, one of the greatest figures in the history of British jazz – obituary He led the Trad revival in the Fifties and his embrace of skiffle and the blues laid the trail for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones Chris Barber (1970s): he could do whatever he liked, whenever he liked Credit: David Redfern Chris Barber, who has died aged 90, led the world’s most popular and longest-lived traditional jazz band. The unflagging appetite for its music, especially among British and north European audiences, defied every conventional tenet of the entertainment business. Barber’s enduring success was due partly to his astuteness in broadening his style and adapting judiciously to changing times. These innovations were often ahead of fashion and always the sincere product of his own wide-ranging enthusiasms. It is perfectly feasible to claim that neither the Beatles nor the Rolling Stones would have come into existence had it not been for Chris Barber. ....