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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´.
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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’.
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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.
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FRANKENSTEIN´S GRANNY: The Mary Wollstonecraft statue. By Michael Higgins

All biographers should aim to depict their subject as real life people and write a life that is true to what they wanted to be and what perhaps they actually became. The same should attain to graphic art and sculpture.