A handful get to bask in adulation. Mike Nock recommends basking in anything you can get, as opportunities are rare. He is happy to settle for a little acclaim, and few acclamations offer better basking rights than the Don Banks Award, Australia’s premier annual acknowledgment of a lifetime contribution to…
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You have a choice: accept that Sun Ra was born Herman (Sonny) Blount in Alabama, or can take his word that he was an angel from Saturn. Given the perspicacity of my readers I can assume which you lean, and, anyway, being a Saturnian angel neatly explains why Sun Ra…
Even being tried for blasphemy over a song lyric never shook Marcel Khalifé’s belief in his music. But then this belief had already seen him playing in bombed-out concert halls during the Lebanese Civil War and withstanding his father’s disdain for pursuing a musical career. Khalifé, who sings, composes and…