Late in life, maverick composer Cage decided to stop finding ‘alternatives to harmony’. The results have been rediscovered by a new generation of musiciansIn the summer of 1990 John Cage gave a lecture at the International New Music gathering in Darmst…
Jeanie Finlay: ‘I don’t film alpha males. They don’t need more exposure’
She spent a year in her room as a teenager, and now makes heart-wrenching documentaries about people looking for safe spaces in record shops, on goth cruises – and even on the set of Game of ThronesThere are many wonderful moments in the films of Jeani…
‘Rawness, freedom, experimentation’: the Brit jazz boom of the 60s and 70s
Swinging London’s cultural melting pot was channelled into vibrant jazz by John Surman, Alan Skidmore and others – and it has inspired the resurgent scene of todayIt was in the dusty depths of Birmingham record library in 2000 that Shabaka Hutchings fi…