The NY Times reports the death of Jean-Philippe Allard, founder of the jazz division at PolyGram France (now Universal).
Allard revived the careers of two generations of sidelined jazz artists, having first failed at a job in the classical division.
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Barcelona – Duke of York’s theatre I’ve been in two very different cities this week – Barcelona and Rejkjavik. In neither case did I see anything of the town itself. In Barcelona I saw the […]
A fantastic debut album from the fantastic Pacific Quintet. Unity themed, it combines composers from 6 different nationalities, 5 of which correspond to the home countries of the players (Bernstein being the “extra”). The booklet is […]
We have been hearing of senior redundancies at ON, which are denied. This, however, is the official line: ‘Opera North has announced this week that it has undertaken a leadership review that aims to put […]
