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His Majesty the King of Thailand hangin’ with Benny Carter

The latest addition to Thonglor’s Liberty Plaza at the New Petchburi Road end of Sukhumvit Soi 55 is a compact one-story venue called Stardust.

Chris Minh Doky, the bass player who wowed Thai audience in June 2008 at the Hua Hin Jazz Festival playing with Mike Stern, Dave Weckl, and Bob Franceschini…

It’s a personal thing - who’s the best anything …

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Looks like Reggie McBride protege John Dooley has dusted off his blues and got the bug again, lining up with Hoochie Coochie this Friday and Saturday

From a Hendrix guitar to Madonna’s bra there’s money out there for rock’s leftovers…Ringo’s underpants anyone?

Fairport Convention stalwart and journeyman bassist and composer/arranger Dave Pegg returned to one of his favourite stomping grounds in November when he appeared at Birmingham Town Hall with some gritty Bob Dylan interpretations.

The death of drummer Mitch Mitchell, aged 61, marks an unwanted milestone in rock mortality. Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, all have suffered fatalities over the years.

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Don’t have the time.energy.insight to organise a music collection of your own worth listening to?

Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, has been found dead in a hotel room in Portland, Ore.

Can punk rockers remain orthodox when they grow old? Joanna R Davis, a sociologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, confronts this painful question in her study Growing Up Punk: Negotiating Ageing Identity in a Local Music Scene, published in the journal Symbolic Interaction.

On August 27, 2008, legendary guitarist and E Street Band member Nils Lofgren joined Rockin’ Rich Lynch for his second stint on the Kweevak Music Magazine Radio Show. In the informative 30-minute interview that followed Nils talked about performing with Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Ringo Starr; his new CD of Neil Young songs called […]

Those of you asking about the 2008 Bangkok Jazz Festival will be amused to know that it’s to be held in the usual location but in March 2009. Our mainstream Thai media entertainment spies say it’s then or not at all and the names invited may not be as bright and shining as years gone […]