Mixed Messages: American Jazz Stories Hubert Moore

Mixed Messages: American Jazz Stories Hubert MooreFrom journeymen musicians to stars with many albums to their name, Mixed Messages includes interviews with 21 American jazz musicians on music, mostly, but the world intrudes, as it does with the best of jazz music. The musicians range from the trombonist Louis Nelson, who was born in 1902, through the New Orleans pianist Ellis Marsalis, who is still playing and on to Byron Stripling, who plays trumpet with his Columbus Jazz Orchestra. Peter Vacher

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Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007

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His work gained a Poetry Business award in 2007 and the twenty winning poems were published as You've Been Great by Smith/Doorstop the following year

as poets from across the world provide profound and moving insights into the emotional pull of countries and cities

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Allfrey died in 1986 - her poetry neglected and little known

which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation

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and reviews by him have appeared in the TLS

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