Mark Gilbert

Investors were rationally exuberant in 2025. US consumers remained remarkably resilient, keeping the world's largest economy out of recession. The tariff blizzard waxed and waned, eventually settling at levies still compatible with maintaining global growth, albeit at an anemic level. Central banks around the world eased monetary conditions, helping to slow an increase of government bond yields amid increased sovereign debt supply. The value of global equities set a fresh record. The coming year

The Franco-American pianist Jacky Terrasson, well known for his work on the Blue Note label, has been accused of raping a six-year-old girl, according to a report published 18 March by France Culture . The alleged offence is said to have taken place in 2015 while the girl accompanied her musician father on a tour with Terrasson, who is said to be a family friend. Three charges have been levelled – by the girl, now 16, and both her parents.

Abstract Background: Digital sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBIs) testing services are used to improve testing access, but might replicate existing social inequities.

Visitors to this year's Swanage jazz festival, 10-12 July, can expect to see what the festival calls (and what appears from the names clearly to be) the “purest” jazz festival lineup on the south coast (or, one might add, anywhere in England). Among the attractions are bands led by Alan Barnes, Nigel Price, Greg Abate, Ivo Neame, Olivia Cuthill, Joe Webb, Jo Harrop, Rob Luft, John Etheridge, Christian Garrick, Mark Lockheart, Marvin Muoneké, Clark Tracey, Tim Whitehead and Pete Allen.

When and how did you start singing? What was the inspiration? I can’t remember a time I wasn’t singing, I think I came out the womb warbling. My opera-singer father started each morning doing his scales to warm up his voice, and that’s what my sister and I woke up to our entire childhoods. I […]

Ealing's Walpole Park is the scene for a number of summer festivals, including those dedicated to jazz, blues and comedy. In fact, Ealing claims to be the birthplace of British blues, its connections with the British blues boom including The Ealing Club, opened in March 1962 by Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, and the nearby presence of Jim Marshall's music shop in Hanwell, where the Marshall amplifier was conceived. The blues fest this year takes place 1-2 August.

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Policymakers at the European Central Bank have just increased their benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point to 2.25%, the first change in policy in a year. While widely anticipated, the decision threatens to tip a faltering economy into recession — especially if the current bout of price increases proves unsustainable and the European energy market remains as well behaved as it has since the war in Iran began.

Jelly Roll Morton told us that if you don't have a Spanish tinge in your music you don't have jazz. He was referring to the seductive syncopation of the habanera (an Africanised, Cuban version of the European contredanse) that he heard in New Orleans. Well, there's a chance to test the Latin American connection in jazz and, vice-versa, the jazz credentials of Latin music this month at the

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