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CDs of the week

06.02.09
Lily Allen returns with a new album that explores the various layers of her personality and the original magic of Van Morrison is in evidence.... more

Fact and fiction in Radioplay

10.10.08
It takes an Irish actor banished to remotest Cornwall in childhood to cook up a monologue as witty and fanciful as Radioplay.... more

The critical DVD round-up

29.07.08
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DVDs of the week

29.07.08
Katherine Heigl is the eternal birdesmaid in 27 Dresses, David Lynch's masterpiece The Elephant Man gets a timely re-release, and prehistoric man sends us all to sleep in 10,000BC... more

Chop Suey tells wrestler's tale

03.07.08
Bruce Weber, maker of Let's Get Lost, the recently re-released film about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, takes a loving look at Peter Johnson.... more

Barry Manilow: Why we still love the King of Kitsch

30.06.08
There are few artists who can match Barry Manilow's megastar status. As The Mail on Sunday prepares to give away a brilliant 12-track CD of some of his greatest songs, the man himself reveals why he's still on top of his game after more than 40 years.... more

Off the record

13.06.08
Indie record labels keep the new ideas coming and rightly deserve their own 4 July celebrations, says David Smyth. ... more

Trumpeting a maestro in Let's Get Lost

05.06.08
Bruce Weber's black-and-white tribute to the trumpeter Chet Baker is musically one of the most evocative jazz movies made in recent years.... more

Now Georgia's on my mind

04.03.08
Three years on the road with a hot band have worked wonders on Georgia Mancio's confidence as a jazz singer.... more

Neo-bop by a Neopolitan

09.01.08
Bad enough that Fabio Capello is teaching us how to play football, his Italian compatriot Renato D'Aiello is showing Londoners how the tenor sax should be played... more

What's wrong at Ronnie's?

26.06.07
A year to the day since it reopened its doors there are complaints that the celebrated jazz club has lost its heart and fears that it's set to be taken over.... more

World's hippest German

07.02.07
A fine trumpeter and charismatic singer, Till Bronner's voice, light and lyrical, and his trumpet tone, warm and breathy, resemble Chet Baker, but without the limp fragility, says Jack Massarik.... more

Schoolboy star's hard lesson

31.08.06
Schoolboy crooner Joe Gibbons might look green, but his convincing vocals bely his tender years. The lad turned 15 only last month and he's already making good progress.... more

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