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IN GOOD COMPANY CROSSING STATE LINES

ever since my primary school my preferred method of learning has been listening to music. I lived only five miles from Bury but at the time I learned that the clay in Georgia USA is bright red, long before I learned that the my home town´s puddings were black !
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ANY FRIEND OF JAZZ IS A BUDDY OF MINE

With no formal training, Charles Buddy Bolden created a unique improvising style with his horn. Essentially, he paved the way for jazz by arranging rural blues, spirituals and ragtime music for brass instruments.

Day 5 concluding our inaugural annual Sidetracks And Detours not literally a JoinedUpReadingAndWriting Literary Festival: GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY?

´If we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.´

day 2 of 5 of Sidetracks & Detours inaugural annual not literally JoinedUpReadingAndWriting Festival STAY WRITE WHERE YOU ARE

I am confident that these innovative and imaginative works will inspire creativity and hope

day 2 of 5 of our inaugural annual not literally a literary festival of JoinedUpReadingAndWriting. READING AND WRITING A NOT SO STILL LIFE

I wanted the novel to reflect a gradual realisation … I’m now writing a novel set in 1979. I need to be on solid ground. The present is like quicksand´.

day 1 of 5 of our JoinedUpReading&WritingFestival ALL BOOKED UP AS LOCKDOWN ENDS

there are many locations around the world I have never visited and yet they still form strong impressions in my mind.
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OF MEN AND WOMEN AND MICROPHONES

´the mind of man can imagine nothing that has not previously existed´
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NEW WINE FROM OLD BOTTLES

Certainly the lead female dancer of Antionio De La Rosa´s flamenco fusion delivered her steps with a sense of defiance and dominance that was surely making some point about gender issues.
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JAZZ; FILM AND BOOK REVIEWS

how on earth can I write about Billie Holiday ? How can anyone ?
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SONGS FOR REAL WOMEN

I recognise, of course, that some names are of such the perfect length and so much the right cadence that even if you tumble over the words you can still stutter out a hit to proclaim your love for Bar, Bar, Barbara Ann, just like the Be Be Beach Boys did!