Articles by John Hellings

Alan Barnes and Art Themen are internationally recognised and phenomenal artists in their own right, but on this first Monday in December when they came…

Bruce Adams, Brian Dee, Bill Coleman This was the second at the new venue, the Berkeley and there was a better seating arrangement which may…

Autumn started off in the Portobello in Worcester and then shifted dramatically in direction to the Berkeley on the Evesham Road. For the first outing…

It might have been the start of the autumn season with the advent of mists and darker evenings, but gloom was not on the agenda…

I dare say most people can assemble a programme of music to be played at an evening of jazz, but I expect that if you…

If you enjoy the music of Hammond B3 master Jimmy Smith or Larry Goldings, then if you weren’t there, I must tell you that you…

If the saying about buses is true, you know the one where they turn up in their two’s and three’s, then last Friday evening rocked…

There was a question from someone in the bar area of the Portobello on Friday that the trio that we had must play together all…

Jazz of any kind is rarely to everyone’s taste. Even those who are not musicians know what they like and more to the point they…

It took two years for Bryan Corbett and Chris Gumbley to return to Worcester and when they did return it was so well worth it….

Some combinations of musicians are very listenable, while others leave you with euphoria and a feeling that you want more. Such is the combination of…

Put five musicians together. The leader is a classically trained trombonist and the remainder of Friday’s band were all professional musicians involved in wide range…