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The Gramophone Emporium
The Gramophone Emporium was a place out of time. Its window (broken) crammed with gramophone parts. It had no website, no phone line, and, despite being in a trendy boho part of town, no passing...
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Jean Sablon
Jean Sablon, a popular French singer and actor, was born in Nogent-sur-Marne in 1906. The son of a songwriter, he studied piano at the Lyceé Charlemagne and the Paris Conservatoire. He began his...
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Threads of Blue Happiness
Old reels of baby blue cotton thread last used by my mother twenty years ago and a greeting card from the 1920s with stencilled Chinese lanterns and flowers. Photo © Rachel Cowan
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Buddy Bolden Blues
Back in the early days of the danceband, ad hoc bands with some weird and wonderful names were the norm. The Original Memphis Five, for example, recorded under such names as Jazzbo’s Carolina...
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