Tag archives for EHSAA
Jazz: Luft and Duni Reach for the Moon
VICTORIA KINGHAM Guitarist Rob Luft has been a regular visitor to Jazz Hastings, having appeared here with his own band and with other musicians celebrated for their originality: Byron Wallen,…
Salsa Night at Jazz Hastings
VICTORIA KINGHAM Salsadelic at EHSAA So, forget serious listening and the appreciation of musical innovation, forget that you think Jazz is only for geeks with beards. This Salsa night was…
Rod Youngs: New From Old
VICTORIA KINGHAM at Jazz Hastings It’s strange how musical appreciation changes over the course of half a century or more. What sounded to the majority uncompromising, unmelodic, on a first…
Notting Hill Carnival Comes to Hastings
JONNY THOMPSON on Reggae Room: The Summer Session Phizz Haldane Once a year, at the very special Hastings Fat Tuesday celebrations, a unique event takes place. Beginning quietly and almost…
Pigfoot Play Ellington
BEN THOMPSON at EHSAA “They never dance, some of them don’t tap their feet, some of them are actually asleep… but still it’s full every month?!” Such is the bewildered…
No Comparison
In early May, two leading singers performed locally on the same evening – Katie Melua at the De La Warr Pavilion, and British jazz diva Norma Winstone at the EHSAA.…
Xhosa Cole at the EHSAA
VICTORIA KINGHAM Traditionally in a review, one is assumed to make rational judgements, to not throw out superlatives like genius, innovator, unique, powerful, beautiful, as to overuse these kinds of…