Keane, Michael

English pianist, organist, and composer Michael Garrick studied literature at London University before leading a trio and quartet in the late '50s. He mixed music and literature in the early '60s, doing more than 250 concerts that blended poetry and jazz. His earliest recording from 1959 was Blues for the Lonely EP, for Columbia. It also featured Joe Harriott, Shake Keane, and poet Jeremy Robson; he also released Kronos with a different group. Garrick was actively composing and doing stage presentations of large and small works and didn't record again until 1963, when A Case of Jazz appeared, which was quickly followed by Poetry and Jazz in Concert. In 1964 he independently pressed and released Moonscapes, a 10" LP with drummer Colin Barnes and bassist David Green. It was pressed in an edition of 99 copies, which quickly sold out; it remained in obscurity until Jonny Trunk and his Trunk Records imprint remastered and re-released it in 2007.

Michael Garrick MBE (30 May 1933 – 11 November 2011) was an English jazz pianist and composer, and a pioneer in mixing jazz with poetry recitations and in the use of jazz in large-scale choral works.

After gumshoe Mike Shayne is hired by a millionaire to keep his daughter away from gambling and gamblers, he becomes involved in the murder of a racetrack tout.

Bonnie Pointer began her career as one-fourth of the singing Pointer Sisters during the early '70s. She married producer Jeffrey Bowen and started a solo career at Motown in 1978. She released two albums of mostly covers of early Motown hits. Bonnie Pointer left Motown in the '80s, following a dispute over her contract. She moved to Private I Records, where she recorded "If the Price Is Right" in 1984.

A survey of the modern jazz & hard-bop scenes that emerged in the new cultural melting pot of post war London, with recordings from the end of the 1940s through to the early 1960s. Featuring representations from players whose roots lay in the East-End's jewish community, such as Ronnie Scott, Vic Ash & Harry Klein, alongside a wealth of talent of Caribbean and African descent playing and recording in post war London during this period, incl. Dizzy Reece, Wilton Gaynair, Joe Harriott, Shake Keane & Ginger Johnson. Made in partnership by Death Is Not The End with the Barbican to coincide with the exhibition Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965. Luke Owen is the founder and label manager for Death Is Not The End. DINTE focusses on archival recordings and broadcasts a monthly 2 hour radio show for the online station NTS.

Chieftains 6 or Bonaparte's Retreat is an album by The Chieftains. It is the first album to feature singing, and the honoured singer was Dolores Keane. This album was the first time Kevin Conneff played on a Chieftains album, and was later to become a full member of the band.