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Jazz

January round-up

Jazz has almost always been a broad church and have been contributing to it since 1999. Like many others during the pandemic, the band was forced into new working methods, and grew out of improvisations between bassist Jim Barr, trumpeter Pete Judge and saxophonist Jake McMurchie, recordings of which were

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