Andra Day reveals she considered retiring from acting after playing jazz legend Billie Holiday By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Published: 03:18 GMT, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 03:18 GMT, 26 March 2021 Andra Day revealed in a podcast interview Thursday that she considered retiring from acting after portraying jazz legend Billie Holiday. The 36-year-old singer … Read more
An alleged drug dealer dismembered a jazz musician after Googling for Breaking Bad tips on how to dissolve a body in acid, the Old Bailey heard today. Simon Emmons, 40, is accused of cutting off William Algar’s limbs, wrapping his head and torso in sheets and burying them in a nature reserve in December 2019. … Read more
British jazz legend Chris Barber has died aged 90 after a battle with dementia. The trombonist, double bassist and trad jazz bandleader was a major influence on mid-century pop music. The musician was one of the Three Bs along with Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball who led the Trad revival of the 1950s and 1960s, … Read more
The five-time Grammy winner performed The Christmas Song, which was featured on her 2000 holiday album My Kind of Christmas
A new wooden structure has been built outside one of the entrances to Gwrych Castle in North Wales as this year’s crop of celebrities gear up for the show.
A renowned Japanese jazz pianist has been robbed of his ability to play his instrument after he was attacked by eight teenagers at a train station in New York City. Tadataka Unno, 40, who may never be able to play the piano again, was exiting the West 135th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue subway station … Read more
London’s iconic Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club reopened in style tonight after being shut for 137 days due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Soho-based club opened its doors with a reduced capacity of 50 per cent and with strict social distancing measures in place. The venue had been gearing up to welcome guests back inside from … Read more
Former Biggest Loser trainer Michelle Bridges announced her split from long-term partner Steve ‘Commando’ Willis at the start of the year.
Birds given doses of the opioid-based fentanyl produce songs purely for pleasure that ‘sound like free-form jazz’ compared to birds not given the drug. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found that when birds sing in flocks rather than for mating purposes it is ‘gregarious’ and gives them pleasure. Birds don’t just sing to … Read more
You may not recognise the name Suzanne Paul, but you almost certainly know her face and distinctive English accent.