The contributor of this piece is jazz activist Ron Washington. Besides being a stalwart jazz diehard and tireless observer of the scene, he is proprietor of Ron “Slim” Washington Productions, which provides jazz and other music for festivals, clubs and...
“A picture is worth a thousand words” – this is a popular and frequently-heard saying. And yet it cannot be taken at face value. Philosophers and artists have during the past hundred years or so argued about the purpose and content of art, ever since art...
“There is nothing – absolutely NOTHING – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” From Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows One of my favourite books as a young child was The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. My father...
