The Mock Mayor of Middleton
A few years ago, I read a tiny article in the i newspaper which mentioned a community of cabins in the area of Hartlepool called Middleton and, following a bit
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The Kellingley March
For months preceding its closure, Kellingley Colliery had been in the news in Yorkshire and, when the date for closure came, I decided I’d go on the march the following
Retired miner Jack, Pontefract
In August 2018, I went to Pontefract to meet some miners who’d kindly agreed to be photographed. I went to George’s house, then we walked round the corner to CISWO
Lads and Horse, Bradford, 2012
I saw a news item about horses being left tethered around Holme Wood, a Bradford housing estate, so I went to have a look. There were three or four horses
12 March 1957: Mingus arrives- at himself
By the mid-fifties, Mingus had a fearsome reputation as a bassist, but I wonder what people thought of him as a composer? We know he’d been writing since he was
“East Coasting” by Charles Mingus, 6 Aug 1957
I reckon I discovered Charles Mingus when I was about 16, just a few years after he died. The first album of his I bought was the 1970 “Pithycanthropus Erectus”;
Charles Mingus’s 1964 European tour
Fifty years ago, the Charles Mingus Sextet toured Europe. This tour represented a peak in Mingus’s career. It was a culmination of what he’d been striving for musically, with one
“Mingus Three”: Charles Mingus, Hampton Hawes, Dannie Richmond, 1957
The second Mingus album I ever bought was called “The Wild Bass” but was in fact first released as “Mingus Three”. It’s a seven-track trio session with Richmond on drums