I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely ...

You have to keep in mind that he was a bandsman, and growing up in a time when bands did fulfill the work of a full symphony orchestra. So he was carrying this enormous weight of introducing ...

After his military service, he picked up work in different jazz bands, even performing as a bandsman on the Queen Elizabeth ocean liner. He also started working as a session musician for producers ...

Surgeon Rear Admiral Lionel Jarvis, President of the Poppy Factory, invited The Duchess of Gloucester to lay a cross of ...

Nicholas Alexander Brown ’10 is a music specialist at the Library of Congress, a conductor and musicologist, and a former Army bandsman. Reach him on Twitter @frenchhorn88.

Flowers' first foray into music began in 1956 aged 18 after he was conscripted into the Royal Air Force, where he played the ...

More than 300 people attended the musical event at Alcester’s Greig Hall including Dave’s two children, Alan and Jane.

where he served for nine years as a bandsman playing the tuba. In 1969, Flowers became one of the founding members of the pop group Blue Mink. The band found chart success with their debut single ...

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"Everything went into slow motion. None of us really knew what had happened." The young bandsman was ordered to look for casualties while the emergency services were called. Exactly a week after ...

Gamblin' Bar Room Blues 2; Frankie And Johnny; Your Funeral My Trial; Seven Skeletons Found In The Yard; Prisoner's Plea; Bandsman Shooting Case; 44 Blues; Biting Bug Blues; Send Me To The 'lectric ...

Certainly it was one of the loudest.' "The whole event, with journalists in tow, was presented as a meeting of worlds, and LSO trumpeter and ex-bandsman Rod Franks was on hand as a 'translator ...