Music for reminiscence

Designed for African Caribbean elders 'Songs From Life,' performed by renowned jazz singer Juliet Kelly and launched at last month's EFG London Jazz Festival, aims via a 45-minute online resource available free to all carers and care homes, …

Published: 7 Dec 2020. Updated: 3 years.

Designed for African Caribbean elders 'Songs From Life,' performed by renowned jazz singer Juliet Kelly and launched at last month's EFG London Jazz Festival, aims via a 45-minute online resource available free to all carers and care homes, to provide music for reminiscence. Songs selected and interpreted by Juliet include the classics 'I Can See Clearly,' and 'Many Rivers to Cross'.

Jazz Browne, chief executive of the west London-based community resource centre Nubian Life, one of the partners with music producer Serious running the Race Equality Council and Arts Council England funded project, says: ''‘Songs From Life' is a therapeutic singing for the brain activity, aimed at people from African Caribbean communities; particularly those living with dementia. In a time of social isolation and closure of day centres due to COVID19 it is vital that older people are engaged in cognitive and stimulating activities.'' 

See the Nubian Life website for more details about 'Songs From Life' and the wider Reminiscence in Action initiative to which it belongs.

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Sounds amazing. Latest update Branford Marsalis known to his fans as 'Steep' introduces the music from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom further with 'In the Shadow of Joe Oliver.' Back on 23 November in these pages the story at that stage looked …

Published: 6 Dec 2020. Updated: 3 years.

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Sounds amazing. Latest update Branford Marsalis known to his fans as 'Steep' introduces the music from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom further with 'In the Shadow of Joe Oliver.'

Back on 23 November in these pages the story at that stage looked like:

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