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JAZZ JOINS POETRY IN PLACE

Every student ought to have the opportunity to act, paint, dance, sing–whatever artistic impulse that helps them discover who they are and who they want to become.
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BRASS BAND BLOWING BACK

When this is over, will there be the same number of brass bands as there were 12 months ago? When you feel so passionately about something, it is important. The youth members are our future. Keeping the academy and training bands going is good for all brass bands.´
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IN THE DANCE BAND ON THE TITANIC

I am not being facetious, nor seeking to abuse the powers of my platform here at sidetracks & detours, when I say I would rather see our tomorrow´s history placed in the hands of today´s artists.
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CAPOTE IN COLD BLOOD

Even writer Norman Mailer, a contemporary who was not without ego himself, was forced to admit, ‘(Truman Capote) wrote the best sentences of anyone in our generation’.

WORLD LOSES JAZZ EXPLORER.

what Corea did best: eroding divisions between classical music, pop standard and dazzling jazz improvisation and providing a blueprint for the shape of jazz to come.
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JAZZ STILL JUMPIN´, JIVIN´AND ZOOMIN

Since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic the jazz press has been keen to alert readers of whatever alternatives are being delivered instead of live concerts.

FOUR TIMES MORE FUN

we recently learned from Jazz In Europe magazine that a new label, Le Coq has been formed to enable new combinations of established artists to play together.
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ART THROUGH THE WINDOW to lift covid gloom

The Great Big Art Exhibition will run from Thursday January 28 until April, and it seems likely that UK families could, to borrow a name employed by my local Touchstones Arts & Heritage Centre, when I was living in Rochdale, England, create their own ´People´s Gallery´ with walkways right around the UK.
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TIMPLE SAFE IN HANDS OF ALEXIS LEMES

He would like to see Timple theory and practice included in the curriculum at the Conservatoire on Lanzarote, offering initiation skills right the way through to professional skills.

REFLECTIONS of Mary Wilson

The music was infectious and, with it, the group achieved unprecedented success, producing 12 No. 1 hits including Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love and Stop! In the Name of Love.