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By Kevin Le Gendre | Jazzwise A playful, knowing reference to one of the standout moments in jazz history highlighted the broad vocabulary of Korean artists appearing at this year's K-Music festival. On stage at King's Place Sol Daniel Kim quipped that if 5/4 was good enough for pianist Dave Brubeck then it certainly works for him.


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Kevin Le Gendre Thu 24 Mar 2022 04.00 EDT W hen asked what was the best song he had ever written, the jazz great Duke Ellington famously quipped that it was one yet to come. He held out the.


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Kevin Le Gendre, long-time music journalist, jazz expert, radio broadcaster and deputy editor of Echoes, has produced a meticulously researched, compassionate and sweeping opus of the history of.


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Kevin Le Gendre's book is superbly written, extremely insightful, and will be of interest to scholars, musicians, and anyone else seeking a deeper understanding of developments in the soul canon from the 1960s to present, especially the complex interplay between singers and musicians. Le Gendre's central premise in Soul Unsung is that.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster and writer with a special interest in black music. Deputy editor of Echoes, he contributes to a wide range of publications that include Jazzwise,.


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Inside The British Jazz Invasion with writer Kevin Le Gendre Above: Binker Golding, one half of the sax and drum duo Binker & Moses Credit: Xoel Freire (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)


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Composer Ray Lee talks to broadcaster and journalist Kevin Le Gendre about his new piece, 'Ring Out', for PRS Foundation's New Music Biennial 2017.PRS Founda.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster with a special interest in black music, literature and culture. Since the 1990s he has written about soul, funk, jazz and hip-hop, as well as African and Caribbean authors, for many publications including Echoes, Jazzwise, The Independent On Sunday, Qwest TV (France) and Times Literary Supplement Online.


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Based on: Don't Stop the Carnival: Black music in Britain by Gendre Kevin Le (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press), 374 pp. £19.96. If you're seeking the history of a people, listen and hearken to their music, the sounds that have followed and expressed their periods of oppression, their key moments, struggles and victories.


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Kevin Le Gendre [ +] Journalist and Broadcaster The history of soul music has been defined, first and foremost, by a succession of exceptional vocalists. It is impossible to conceive of the genre without them.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster and writer with a special interest in black music.


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by KEVIN LE GENDRE (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2018), 374 pp. £19.96. If you're seeking the history of a people, listen and hearken to their music, the sounds that have followed and expressed their periods of oppression, their key moments, struggles and victories. This is what the Trinidad-rooted writer, music


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Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music. He is deputy editor of Echoes magazine, has written for a wide range of publications, including Jazzwise, MusicWeek, Vibrations, The Independent On Sunday and The Guardian, and is a contributor to such radio programmes as BBC Radio 3's J to Z and BBC Radio 4's Front Row.