Richard Cook

Culture

Poor Tom

• 13 March 2000

Tom Jones has just been feted by the Brit Awards as "Best British Male Solo Artist". But Richard Cook is unmoved by the bawler from Pontypridd

Culture

Guns, but no roses

• 14 February 2000

Music - Hip-hop rappers are living on borrowed time

Books

Sketches of pain

• 07 February 2000

The Essential Jazz Records Vol 2: modernism to postmodernism Max Harrison, Eric Thacker and Stuart Nicholson Mansell 889pp, £25 ISBN 0720117224

Culture

Bromley blues

• 31 January 2000

Music - Richard Cook on how Billy Jenkins has created his very own modern sound

Culture

Dial demons

• 17 January 2000

Music 1 - Richard Cook on the producers who call the tune

Culture

No words can express

• 10 January 2000

Music - Richard Cook on an infuriating genius

Culture

A hundred-year mayfly

• 20 December 1999

Jazz - Is it pop or is it art? Neither and both

Culture

Too much, man

• 13 December 1999

Rock - Richard Cook on three survivors and one star from the glory days of pop protest

Playing safe

• 06 December 1999

Radio - Richard Cook on pop programming

Culture

Soul brothers

• 29 November 1999

Music - Richard Cook on the flares and flair of the Isley Brothers