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Nigel Jarrett: New Journal of the Plague Year

April 7, 2020

New Journal of the Plague Year As lockdown was imposed, Welsh writer Nigel Jarrett began, at his home in Abergavenny,…

Tommaso Starace Quartet at Black Mountain Jazz, Abergavenny

November 26, 2019

  Anglo-Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace has long been standard-bearer for Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, who himself has long been resident in…

L’heure Espagnole, Mid Wales Opera, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff

November 17, 2018

One might be uncharitable and say that Mid Wales Opera’s production of Ravel’s musical comedy L’heure Espagnole has serious faults and…

European Union Chamber Orchestra, Borough Theatre, Abergavenny

October 22, 2018

The arrangements by which the EUCO puts itself about across Europe takes in both grand and modest venues, which accounts…

Brecon Baroque Festival, Brecon Cathedral

October 20, 2018

Concepts in the performance of music – Mozart by Candlelight, Vivaldi Out of Doors: that sort of thing – can…

Tristan, Black Mountain Jazz, Abergavenny

October 2, 2018

A healthy musical culture is one that never leaves its historical achievements behind as though they counted for nothing. At…

Wall2Wall Jazz Festival, Abergavenny

September 6, 2018

There’s a sense in which the current Brecon Jazz Festival and Black Mountain Jazz’s Wall2Wall festival at Abergavenny are remnants…

Vale of Glamorgan Festival review

May 16, 2018

One of the frustrating things for fans of contemporary music of the sort on offer at the 50th Vale of…

Wendy Kirkland Quartet: Black Mountain Jazz Club

May 1, 2018

Chris Byars, the New York saxophonist, composer and band leader, was displaying the jazz musician’s hard-nosed realism when he opined…

Chop Idols at Black Mountain Jazz

March 27, 2018

Miles Kington famously remarked that he travelled from Wales to London for jazz, only to discover that jazz had decamped…

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