Elsewhere Art . . . Joe Meek
As time goes, on the life of British producer Joe Meek actually comes down to his tragic death, a suicide after murdering his landlady.Aside from his work in the early Sixties on Telstar by the...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . Frank Zappa #2
To be honest, I'm not sure if this collage was ever used.I have no record of it appearing on any article and maybe I just did it because . . . I could?I know when I did it I was thinking of the idea of...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . Judas
This is a very old collage -- from the late Eighties at a guess. I found it after the 2023 Auckland Anniversary Weekend flooding swept through my office which meant I had to clear out -- and...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . the iiii label
Frankly this collage isn't up to much.It was done in haste (no excuse) because I had spent so much time listening through to a bunch of albums on Wellington's iiii label (which I wrote about in a...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . Rosemary Brown
It seems the jury is still out on Rosemary Brown, the woman who said she was channeling the undiscovered works of great classical composers such as Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven and others who would talk...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . two jazz guitarists
When considering a couple of albums by jazz guitarists Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie in 2017, I was struck by just how old they were: these were men now in their Seventies and yet I still thought...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . studio boffins
Sometime in the very late Eighties I spent a day in an Auckland studio with a very well known dance-pop band.It was one of the dullest days imaginable.They had recorded their instrumental parts...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . The ACT label artists
In 2010 I received a small package of CDs from the ACT label out of Germany, and their Signature Edition albums all came in generic cover art by Carl-Hendrik Wigren.What appealed to me wasn't just that...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . Superbrew
In the late Eighties the saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Jim Langabeer helmed the innovative jazz group Superbrew which, as I noted in my piece about the 2010 CD reissue of their '87 Africa Aroha...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . Vernon Reid
This collage was very simple but oddly enough it took quite a long time to execute properly.It is of Vernon Reid from the band Living Colour and it accompanied a 2017 interview with him, the second...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . an academic opines
This was among a number of experimental pieces I made using plastic-coated paper through the photocopier, I liked the effect of the dappling coagulation where the ink didn't penetrate the sheet.I was...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . some jazz women
For the life of me I can't remember any of the details of this collage other than I was presented with about half a dozen albums by women jazz singers . . . and all of them presented themselves in a...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . Ray Brown
When the jazz bassist Ray Brown died in 2002 he was such a great talent his passing deserved to be noted, so Elsewhere published this survey of life, humour and greatness.Brown was probably best known...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . David Sanborn
For quite a while, saxophonist David Sanborn was quite a name in jazz and rock.When I interviewed him in the early 1990s I noted the number of Grammys he'd won but also his guest spots on Bowie's Young...
View ArticleElsewhere Art . . . Passages
I have mentioned previously how, in 1984, I launched the ambitious -- so ambitious it was doomed -- magazine Passages: The Magazine of Jazz and Elsewhere.And how at one point the late Jim Langabeer and...
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