Category: Features – Archive

October 19, 2020 / Features - Archive

You’re 16 years old and a wannabe concert promoter. Amid extreme racial tensions in 1968, the year both Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, you’ve booked the Thelonious Monk Quartet to play at your very white Californian high school, with two local black support acts. But tickets…

October 5, 2020 / Features - Archive

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…

September 30, 2020 / Features - Archive

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…