If soulful stuff is what you're after, here are the best jazz fests taking place this summer up and down the countryBluesFestWhen 26 June-6 JulyWhere Various venues in Lo...
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*Van Morrison* (http://www.vanmorrison.com) will headline the Green Man Festival (http://www.greenman.net) in Wales this year.
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Whether it was intended that way or not, Michael Kiwanuka's debut ticks a lot of the boxes required for pop success in 2012If such a thing as a racing certainty still exi...
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The shred-master guitarist Ronnie Montrose, the former leader of the band Montrose and one of the great technical wizards from the early days of hard rock, died on Saturd...
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The guitarist RONNIE MONTROSE has sadly died at the age of 64 his booking agent Jim Douglas confirming that the virtuoso had passed away at his home in California on Sund...
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As this column ends, I thought it appropriate to talk about rock's profound sense of beginning – its power and possibility, its surging promiseThis column began fiv...
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A positively cherubic Van Morrison struts like a rooster, celebrating the free world of the radioIt's a "joyous shot at how things ought to be" – getting together, ...
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Kings of Irish trad-folk celebrate 50th anniversary by recording album with indie artistsThe Chieftains will celebrate their 50th anniversary with an album of collaborati...
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Tonight, 22:00 on BBC Two and BBC HD (UK Only)Joining Jools on this last programme in the current series are: LA's own alternative rock/funk superstars Red Hot Chili Pepp...
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Hi-Fi Club, LeedsMichael Kiwanuka stands centre stage with his eyes closed, shirt hanging awkwardly off his back. The only instrumentation is his guitar and the occasiona...
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Experience Belfast Music Week in Style As the city famous for giving the world Van Morrison and Snow Patrol, Belfast prides itself on having one of the strongest musi...
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Van Morrison proves his soulfulness to German TV viewers in a classic 70s clipFrom a 1974 German TV programme, Musik Laden (Music Shop), this is a six-and-a-half minute g...
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CSS feat Bobby Gillespie Hits Me Like A Rock (V2) Who'd have thought that Bobby G sighing over a track that sounds like Aqua covering The Tide Is High by Blondie would so...
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Royal Festival Hall, LondonBy pulling together folk, jazz and blues into evocative, melodic albums, Pentangle were ahead of the curve in the late 1960s. An early "supergr...
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Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums ever – with a view that you might do the same – Laura Barton plum...
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