‘If you look like Penn & Teller, you have to have the best magic trick ever seen’
‘Houdini used deception to help people recognise the difference between fraud and reality’
John McLaughlin: ‘I tell my hands how beautiful they are. Now I have no pain at all’
The great guitarist on arthritis, choosing art over money and working with Miles Davis
Guy Barker: ‘all the rock’n’rollers love Charles Mingus’
A fearsome character and fierce jazz innovator, Charles Mingus was a bridge between the early and modern jazz eras
Red Hot Chili Peppers: ‘I thought we’d implode at some point, like most bands do’
Why does Anthony Kiedis hang up after a difficult question about his past?
Betty Davis, raw funk pioneer, dies aged 76
Singer, who married Miles Davis, influenced many with wild voice and overtly sexual lyrics
Sean Moncrieff: Why are my clothes still on? Why am I on the kitchen floor?
The Fear, hangxiety, call it what you will. Most of us have had a hangover
Long Players by Tom Gatti: A perfect compilation
Book review: Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Sarah Hall are among the 50 authors selected to write about the albums that shaped them
Cicely Tyson, award-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 96
Pioneering US actress won Emmy and Tony honours during extraordinary long career
Ghost of Juliette Gréco lingers over Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Paris Letter: Performer sang of her beloved city, of amour, rebellion and fleeting pleasures
Seán Moncrieff: I’ve fallen out of love with America
There’s a darkness I never saw before. Perhaps it was papered over by all that positivity
Jörg Widmann: Conductor of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, trying to fill the space
Energetic German talks lockdown listening, mooching through Munich and pining for crowds
Pat Metheny: From This Place – A brave step forward from a jazz great
Guitar player’s latest album is a sprawling cinematic epic, if not always successful
Simon and Garfunkel for people who don’t like Simon and Garfunkel
Donald Clarke: Never cool, Bridge over Troubled Water spans tastes half a century on
Motherless Brooklyn: Edward Norton’s overlong vanity project
Review: There is a fine noir here somewhere, busting to escape the Friends of Ed Norton Cabaret
Diahann Carroll, groundbreaking actor, dies aged 84
Dynasty star was the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series
The extraordinary genius of Donal McCann on stage
Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre
Gershwin and Dorothy Parker: This week’s jazz highlights
One of the most exhilarating live acts on the Irish scene will also take to the stage
Seán Moncrieff: Can we rediscover the wonder we had as children?
The older we get, the more locked inside ourselves we become
The best jazz events this week
Dirty Jazz Club returns to Dublin while the Guilfoyle/Nielsen Trio plays in Derry bar
Rising stars and a celebration of Sarah Vaughan: This week’s best jazz gigs
The return of Rodrigo Almonte to his sometime home is also among the highlights
From apartheid to the Ardoyne, McRae still telling life’s most interesting tales
Author and journalist has been honing his sportswriting craft for 35 years
Kind of Blue: A glory of 20th century music, reorchestrated in Ireland
Miles Davis gets new arrangements from Guy Barker and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Van Morrison: The Prophet Speaks review – A master in his comfort zone
Van the very prolific man releases his 40th album, and his fourth in two years
Wake the dead: Cork Guinness Jazz Festival kicks off
40,000 jazz fans to attend as New Orleans-style funeral procession hits town
Home Front: Interiors, design, people and events
How to do a sleepover in style and who will fix up your furniture
This Album Changed My Life: Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else (1958)
Musician and composer Seán Mac Erlaine on his jazz awakening
Washington, we need an exorcist!
Maureen Dowd: William Friedkin revisits old haunts for his new film about exorcism
‘In five seconds my life changed. I was worse than the worst jazz snob’
For the acclaimed jazz innovator Pat Metheny, guitars were tools for creating music. Then one he first saw as a child came up for sale, and he had to have it
Terence Trent D’Arby’s identity change: ‘It was that or death’
In 1987 he was hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson, then his star crashed and burned
10 of the best John Coltrane tracks
The great saxophonist died 50 years ago this week. Here are 10 of his finest moments
The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
Archive: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall
Here's what happens when your first record is Miles Davis
Laura Jurd is one of jazz's fastest rising stars but her band Dinosaur has a sound that's pure early 1970s electric funk
Bob Dylan the poet: songs and lyrics that delivered Nobel prize
From the apocalyptic vision of A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall to the complex meditations of Ain’t Talkin’, Dylan delivers poetry in emotion
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