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I was late cycling in to work today. On passing the The Catholic Church of the Holy Name on Oxford Rd it was impossible not to notice a hug...

Things are so much easier these days. This afternoon I popped down The Haçienda night club for a quick groove followed by a curry at Al Fai...

I've been off the MCR jam scene for ages now. Last year and the year before I used to go probably every other week or so to the 'Al...

I've decided that my fave discovery from the Jazz Festival was the great young trumpet player/composer/dj/producer Matt Halsall (check ...

So yesterday was sadly the last day of this years jazz festival. We managed to get into town in town to catch the first act, Sax Assault , ...

A full day of MCR jazz yesterday began with the Matt Halsall Sextet at 11.45am. We almost didn't go to see them but I'm really ple...

We have some friends, Frank and Moira, visiting us at the moment so last night we took them along to see Jon Thorne 's tribute to bass p...

Like many people who like to refer to themselves as musicians, I have a day job. In my case this is working on Interweb stuff for the Univer...

Didn't make it to much yesterday. Just the ' The Chosen ' in the lovely St Ann's Church in St Ann's Square. Described a...