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Deep Purple | Machine Head | 1972 Miles Davis | Filles de Kilimanjaro | 1969 Bert Jansch | LA Turnaround | 1974 Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Alone in San Francisco | 1959 Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 1970 The Art Farmer Quartet with Jim Hall | Interaction | 1963 James…
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376 | Deep Purple | Machine Head | Purple TPSA 7504 | 1972 Waiting for the release of Deep Purple’s sixth album was a little like waiting for Led Zeppelin’s fourth, in that they both followed a slightly disappointing album, which in turn had come directly after a masterpiece. Although I grew to love Led…
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A selection of albums in the Jazz File collection
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Flick the Dust Off | 3 April, 2026 Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple (Machine Head) After Midnight – Eric Clapton (Eric Clapton) Roll on Babe – Ronnie Lane (Any More For Any More) I Shall Be Released – The Band (Music from Big Pink) It Fills You Up – Van Morrison (A Period…
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SIERRA HULL AND JUSTIN MOSES | UPPER CHAPEL | SHEFFIELD | 27.01.23 Standing next to the four stone Ionic columns in front of the Upper Chapel Unitarian Church on Norfolk Street tonight, waiting for the sound checks to finish, I’m reminded of the days when I would wait by eight similar columns just a little…
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In a change to the usual Live section, some of these features are pictures only. The Ciderhouse Rebellion and Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | 14.01.22 Fiddler’s Elbow | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | 28.01.22 Bar Stewards of Val Doonican | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | 11.02.22 Yorkshire Folk Showcase…
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Brooks Williams | Cast Theatre, Doncaster | 04.03.21 I’ve always considered it odd, if not nigh on impossible, to review a live gig if you’re not actually there, yet in these wildly extraordinary times, this is precisely the way it goes. Under normal circumstances, just prior to a show, there would be the mandatory swift…
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Steve Tilston and Reg Meuross | CAST Theatre, Doncaster | 22.01.20 Three things spring to mind when sitting before such a pairing as Steve Tilston and Reg Meuross, two highly accomplished British singer songwriters; first admiration, followed by satisfaction and then chronic envy. I have great admiration for these two musicians, first and foremost for…
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Frank Carline | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | 11.01.19 With the last scraps of turkey (or your own particular veggie option) well and truly disposed of and the multitude of tree pines almost completely swept up, together with those resolutions made and broken within minutes of one another, we step tentatively into the New Year…
MY NORTHERN SKIES 