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Trevor Hodgett
Trevor Hodgett is a freelance writer based in Belfast. He has contributed to Mojo, NME, Record Collector, RNR, Blues In Britain, the Irish News and other publications; he is the co-author, with Colin Harper, of Irish Folk, Trad & Blues A Secret History (The Collins Press); he has contributed to reference works including the Guinness Rockopedia, the Mojo Collection and the Encyclopaedia Of Music In Ireland; and he has appeared on radio and television programmes on the BBC, RTE and other stations.
Emily Saunders: ‘For me, technique is freedom’
“The essence of me is writing songs and expressing experiences or what I see around me and just trying to spread some happiness,” declares...
Art Themen: ‘I wouldn’t be interested in being a backing musician for Adele’
“I don’t rate myself,” asserts saxophonist Art Themen. “I’m just a jobbing musician who’s been very, very lucky.” It’s an astounding statement, for Themen,...
Sean Khan: ‘Jazz is full of little cliques, and musicians are not the nicest people’
London saxophonist and flautist Sean Khan has been much acclaimed for albums such as Palmares Fantasy, a 2018 collaboration with Hermeto Pascoal, 2021’s Supreme...
Samara Joy: ‘I didn’t start singing to become a jazz superstar’
“It was terrible! The nerves! I was so nervous! So, so nervous!” exclaims New York singer Samara Joy of her first visit to the...
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Lizz Wright: looking back
The southern-states singer talks about her family, including the preacher father who wanted her to marry someone like him
Brilliant Corners festival, Belfast
The 2024 edition included Seb Rochford, Zoe Rahman, Luke Bacchus, Tom Ollendorff, AKU! and John Donegan's Irish Sextet
Dave Quincy, English jazz-rock pioneer
The saxophonist and writer for the jazz-rock bands If and Zzebra, now 84, reckons he's at last playing as well as he always wanted to
Emma Rawicz: in the middle of somewhere
She might have grown up in rural Devon but the virtuoso saxophone playing of Emma Rawicz has put her at centre of metropolitan attention
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Alex Hitchcock: making connections
One of the tracks on saxophonist Hitchcock's new album is the Brexit-inspired Cakeism, written when he sought unity in a time of division
Meilana Gillard – a story to tell
The saxophonist's variety of addresses over the years - London, Ohio, New York and Belfast - seems to be reflected in her broad view of jazz
Claire Martin: ‘I’m horrified at the stuff the empire did, but…’
The royally recognised singer talks about doing orchestral arrangements of music by her great kindred spirit, Richard Rodney Bennett
Linley Hamilton: ‘I feel that what I’m bringing to the table is really, really important’
The messianic Ulster trumpeter has a new post-bop and fusion record featuring American stars Adam Nussbaum and Mark Egan
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