John Lewis
Contributor at The Guardian
Journalist at Freelance
Freelance Subeditor at Financial Times
Freelance Publishing Editor at The Telegraph
Editor, writer, failed musician, tango dancer, Anglo-Indian curry expert and contributor to the Guardian, Uncut, ThePoke and anyone else who'll pay me
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | John Lewis
The Henry Willis organ – 70ft high, 65ft wide, with 9,999 pipes – has long been the criminally underused centrepiece of the Royal Albert Hall, but it has finally found someone big enough to bring it to life. Anna Lapwood, the venue’s first ever official organist, might be a slight 5ft 3in but the so-called “TikTok organist” – with more than 2m social media followers – is charismatic enough to sell out a midweek gig and have a packed hall eating out of her hand.
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1 month ago |
ft.com | John Lewis
The orchestra pits of Broadway musicals are often filled with jazz musicians but, on October 14 1930, the Alvin Theatre on 52nd Street...
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2 months ago |
telegraph.co.uk | John Lewis
Postmodern Jukebox harks back to a time when jazz was the dominant popular dance music; when its musicians played the showtunes and Tin Pan Alley songs that were the hits of the day, something that largely stopped with the rise of rock 'n' roll. Since then, the jazz world has embraced a few pop songwriters - The Beatles, Burt Bacharach, Stevie Wonder and, more recently, Radiohead - but has largely avoided contemporary pop and rock songs.
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Feb 10, 2025 |
theguardian.com | John Lewis
‘I went face to face with Keith Jarrett,” recalls Vera Brandes, “and I said to him, ‘Keith, if you don’t play this concert, I’ll be fucked. And you’ll be fucked too.’” Brandes laughs as she recalls this pivotal conversation, 50 years later. It came after a day of chaos where she, an 18-year-old concert promoter, was desperately trying to convince the famously temperamental jazz pianist to play a concert on a substandard instrument.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
theguardian.com | John Lewis
You sometimes wonder what orchestra members think when they’re accompanying big pop stars. Do these highly trained musicians, who’ve been studying their craft for decades, look on in faint contempt as someone clearly less skilled than them is in the limelight? This is clearly not the case when members of the Britten Sinfonia watch tonight’s two star guests: polymath singer/pianist Jacob Collier and mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile.
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My review of organist Anna Lapwood at a packed Royal Albert Hall last night. https://t.co/qAXFdALOIA
Just realised that my piece on jazz music's foundational melody was in this weekend's FT, my first piece for the excellent Life Of A Song series.
I Got Rhythm — how the Gershwins laid the foundations for myriad tunes https://t.co/Ncxybucm0G
RT @ftweekend: I Got Rhythm — how the Gershwins laid the foundations for myriad tunes https://t.co/Ncxybucm0G
