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CRAWL INTO THE PROMISED LAND

women need to live their lives out loud, just to balance millennia of men living their lives out loud.
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JAZZ PLAQUES PLACED

I needed to drive for Miles, or catch a Coltrane, to cross the border into jazzland.
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FUTURISTIC FESTIVALS OF JAZZ

´not only has the pandemic challenged us and our fellow clubs to accelerate and refine our streaming concert programs, to the benefit of our fans, but the circumstances have also enabled us to program a stunning scope and diversity of artists that otherwise be nearly impossible to hear in one evening.´
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ALBUM APPRECIATION

Streaming technology has made it possible to narrow that gap between the recording and the release of an album.´
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TAPESTRY – a stitch in (fifty years of) time

´One of the best albums, ever, by one of the best songwriters, ever. Period.´
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CATCH A FALLING (MICHELIN) STAR

The world being such a global village these days means that hard work and qualifications are now a passport to international travel and success.
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JOINED UP FOR JAZZ PART 10, conclusion of inaugural S & D Joined Up Jazz Festival presented in association with Hot Biscuits

No doubt the four of us, the newly dubbed Joined Up Jazz Journalists, will find new music, emerging artists and yet unidentified audiences, even as we protect the legacy of music we have each loved throughout our lives.
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COLOURS OF JAZZ IN SPRING penultimate part (9) of the inaugural S&D Joined Up Jazz Festival presented in association with Hot Biscuits

after Pablo and Humberto, had responded to a loud and lengthy standing ovation by returning to play solo pieces that finally fused into a wonderful closing riff, we took the opportunity to revert to our investigative journalistic ways and have a chat with the players.
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part 8 of our inaugural S &D Joined Up Jazz Festival presented in association with Hot Biscuits. SWING TIME IN EUROPE by Steve Bewick

´Every artist, everyone who considers himself an artist, has the right to create freely according to his ideal, independently of everything. However, we are Communists and we must not stand with folded hands and let chaos develop as it pleases. We must systemically guide this process and form its result.´
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Part 7 of inaugural annual S & D Joined Up Jazz Festival in association with Hot Biscuits, ELLA FITZGERALD: First Lady Of Song by Norman Warwick

Throughout her career, Ella would master scat singing, turning it into a form of art.