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  Did Bowie beat Adele? All 36 Glastonbury headliners ranked from worst to best

  Using books and personal reminiscences, countless internet forums and old magazine reports, all headliners are ranked solely on the weight of the three performances.

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  Did Bowie beat Adele? All 36 Glastonbury headliner bills, ranked from worst to best

  Using books and personal reminiscences, countless internet forums and old magazine reports, all headliners are ranked solely on the weight of the three performances. Their rankings are ordered by the day they played (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). Vehemently disagree? See you in the comments. 36. The Black Crowes, Lenny Kravitz, Wynton Marsalis (1993) A weird line-up by any standards, partly due to Red Hot Chili Peppers dropping out (Lenny Kravitz stepped in). Anyone actually into music was at the O

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  Did Bowie beat Adele? All 35 Glastonbury headliner bills, ranked from worst to best

  The following was compiled using books and personal reminiscences, countless internet forums and old magazine reports. All headliners are ordered by the day they played (Friday, Saturday, Sunday), and their ranking is based solely on the weight of the three performances, not on the wider excitements of the many other stages at each year’s festival. 35. The Black Crowes, Lenny Kravitz, Wynton Marsalis (1993) A weird line-up by any standards, partly due to Red Hot Chili Peppers dropping out (Lenny

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  Nicola Benedetti ‘honoured’ to win Grammy

  The violinist won the award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo.

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  We 'shouldn't apologise' for the race or gender of those who made the most celebrated classical music, Nicola Benedetti says

  Beethoven, Mozart and Bach have in common that they are some of the most celebrated classical music composers of all time - and also that they are all white men.

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  The Guardian

  Roy Hargrove obituary

  When the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis emerged as the champion of a return to traditional acoustic-jazz values in the 1980s, his single-minded charisma inspired talented disciples all over the world. One of the most gifted of them was the trumpeter and flugelhornist Roy Hargrove, who has died aged 49 after a cardiac arrest. Hargrove began his jazz career in the late 80s sounding as if he could have dropped neatly into a classic Blue Note Records session band of 20 years earlier – and looking like

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  Evening Standard

  Judi Jackson interview: Jazz music was my escape

  Judi Jackson was 14 years old, living with her adoptive parents in Roanoke, Virginia, unofficial capital of the Blue Ridge Mountains, when a box of CDs arrived in the post. Inside were recordings by some of the greatest jazz divas ever, their voices telling of lives lived, battles fought, stories demanding to be heard — Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, who invested the African-American spiritual Sinnerman with a passion and fury the young Jackson, a keen chorister, had never enc

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  The Independent

  Roy Hargrove: Award-winning trumpeter once dubbed the hottest jazz player in the world

  Roy Hargrove was a Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter who seamlessly shifted from one style of music to another. Hargrove emerged as a fully formed talent in his teens, gaining an early boost from his fellow trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and appeared on bandstands with bebop pioneer Gillespie while still in high school in Texas. Only 20 when he released his first album, Hargrove was heralded as the leading light of the “Young Lions” movement, a new generation of musicians deeply schooled in the traditi

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  A soundscape of craggy, open-spaces grandeur at the Barbican, plus all the best jazz and folk concerts of 2018

  A soundscape of craggy, open-spaces grandeur at the Barbican, plus all the best jazz and folk concerts of 2018

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  Bob Dylan says he enjoys Stereophonics in rare extensive interview

  No one could accuse Bob Dylan of being predictable - particularly given his latest interview where he revealed a surprising appreciation for Welsh rock band Stereophonics. In a rare, long interview on his website that was conducted by Bill Flanagan, Dylan discussed the making of Triplicate - his new triple album of American songbook classics - and his favourite recent music. Answering the latter he revealed: "Iggy Pop's Après, that's a good record.

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