Bill Leader’s big idea, to go where the music is playing and catch it on the wing, is comparable to the moment when technology freed film directors to shoot on location. It gets great results if you don’t mind roughing it.
عن المؤلف
Mike Butler – born in Middlesbrough 1958; a record retailer in Camden Town, 1980-83; edits arts zine GRR!, 1987-1991; as City Life’s jazz correspondent he interviews Nina Simone (twice!) and Sun Ra, 1989-2009; hundreds of his musician interviews appear in Metro, 1999-2009; discovers the missing verse of ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale, 1994; promotes tours by Texas singing lawyer Abner Burnett, 1997-2001; helms Manchester Jazz Society, 2010-present.