Still crazy

This Heat split in 1982, but their records influenced some of the most inventive alternative musicians who followed. Neil Cooper caught the improv kings’ live return as This Is Not This Heat at Café Oto

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Bitches Brew

The third installment of a celebratory showcase of Scotland’s virtuoso female jazz players takes place tonight, writes Neil Cooper

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The day the music died

don mclean american pie

A manuscript of original lyrics to Don McLean’s epic American Pie was recently auctioned in New York. Simon Warner explores the backdrop to the song’s conception and the hidden meanings behind its much-coveted words

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