John Betjeman - John Betjeman: 35 Favourite PoemsIn a 1962 radio interview he told teenage questioners that he could not write about 'abstract things', preferring places and faces. Philip Larkin wrote of Betjeman's work, "how much more interesting & worth writing about (his) subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so and so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.

ensemble leader

Together with her beloved Havana Lyceum Orchestra conducted by José Antonio Méndez Padrón

Vertigo will perform the program in London's illustrious Pizza Express jazz club where they were invited on the basis of their triumph in the Central European Jazz Showcase in 2021

relaxed and romantic

Born in Sarrebourg in 1993

Alvino Rey and Blue Barron before launching his own band in the late 1940s

the shortages of supplies and manpower

the sorcerers of the Tower of Fang callously decide to pretend that Azalie died in order to preserve the Tower's reputation

In his many workshops and training courses he insists on stirring the musical imagination between creation and interpretation while stressing presence and immediacy

the virtuoso and inspiring interpretation of the Chinese violinist reveals something amazingly unifying

juvenile Kurimu

hard-edged Louisiana blues from a young blues giant