The first night of A&S’s fourth Jazz-Poetry Festival – this one at a new venue. The bill includes the first outing for Gail Thompson’s Jazz Africa show, effectively the first night of its UK tour. The touring line-up was Thompson, Ntuli and the Mervyn Africa Quintet. The featured accompanists for ...
The second night of the 4th Jazz-Poetry Festival. Ntozake Shange and Billy ‘Spaceman’ Patterson had to cancel and were replaced by Paul Rogers and Francine Luce.
The final night of the 4th Jazz-Poetry Festival. Line-up: Linton Kwesi Johnson & Shake Keane (trumpet); Talvin Singh & Mahmood Jamal; and the Jean Toussaint Quartet. Paul Bradshaw was the founder of Straight No Chaser, an influential London magazine dedicated to black and electronic music. It ran from 1988 to ...
