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GIL EVANS : the lone arranger part 3 of the inaugural S & D Joined Up Jazz Festival in association with Hot Biscuits

Gil Evans wanted to get the feeling of what Berendt called ‘a cloud through sound, pierced by rays of sunshine which struck the listener as on an autumn morning, through the gentle veil of fog.’
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Bessie Smith – EMPRESS OF THE BLUES part 2 of the inaugural S & D Joined Up Jazz Festival in association with Hot Biscuits

She has been a primary influence for countless female vocalists, including the afore mentioned Billie Holliday, (subject of a later instalment of our jazz festival special here at sidetracks & detours) Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin and has been immortalized in numerous works.
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JOHN COLTRANE AND HIS LOVE SUPREME part 1 of the inaugural S & D Joined Up Jazz Festival in association with Hot Biscuits

´the first comprehensive statement of Coltrane's spiritual concerns and the cornerstone of many Coltrane collections´.