Category: Features

Not many artists can be certain they’ve created a masterpiece. John Coltrane, who placed little credence in his own genius, had an inkling of something special when he’d finished composing A Love Supreme. Perhaps that was why he rarely played it in concert. How do you improve on perfection? For…

The best way out of the lockdown blues is not to try (and fail) to perk yourself up, it’s to wallow in the sorrow. Dig deeper into the gloom until, in some white blast of catharsis, you rise phoenix-like and emotionally purged. Well, for a while… Idioms such as Italian…