Category: Features
October 5, 2020 / Features - Archive

Charles Lloyd: Sharing a gift with a Greek goddess

As a child growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Charles Lloyd used to put his radio under his pillow so Billie Holiday could sing him to sleep. Always a dreamer, he determined that he would find this beautiful woman, and take her away from all the misery and heartache that filled…

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September 30, 2020 / Features - Archive

Abdullah Ibrahim: Drawing from the well at the source

Abdullah Ibrahim was an adult before he learned his father had been murdered when he, Abdullah, was only four. He’d grown up believing his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister. Perhaps that’s why his life has always seemed a search for truth; why his greatest album…

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September 24, 2020 / Features - Archive

Judy Bailey: The six-month stay that became 60 years

She was used to hearing classical or pop music humming from the cream-coloured Bakelite radio that hunched on the Whangarei kitchen’s Formica bench. But on this particular afternoon her 13-year-old ears heard something new. She recognised the song, East of the Sun, yet after the melody the band seemed to…

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