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it’s not all relative

It was sometime in 1993, when my sister and I were seven or eight and my family lived in a town called Halls Creek, that I first discovered jazz. Or so I believed.

Halls Creek sits on a stretch of highway in the Kimberley that doesn’t hit another town for hundreds of kilometres in either direction – though the Indigenous communities for

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