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Article: Jazz (or hip hop, gurgle, plop 'n' fruit) festival; Martin Longley samples the many and varied delights (and other things) at Cheltenham.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 13, 1999
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Cheltenham's fourth International Jazz Festival promised to be bigger and more diverse than ever. It certainly delivered the goods, laying down the attitude to come by offering the contrasting pleasures of hip-hopping In the Mix and a concert dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington.
In the grandly cavernous Town Hall bands bonded a common interest in turntable scratching, playing to a packed audience of enthusiasts (to loosely categorise training shoes and jazz beards).
Ambitroniques veered from tinkering hesitantly with banks of electronic gear to lifting ...
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