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‘The feeling of a stroll, with stops, looking, and starting again’
CHRIS SEARLE interviews saxophonist Chris Biscoe on the release of his new tribute to Mike Westbrook
[Peter Symes]

ONE of the precious gifts to British jazz is the composer, bandleader and pianist Mike Westbrook, born in High Wycombe in 1936.

 

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