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Catholic saint Thérèse of Lisieux once stated, “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its…
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With our review of the second day of the 2024 Newport Jazz Festival - read day one here - we…
In making sense of the story of jazz, historians often craft a narrative that neatly divides into different generations and…