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Month: September 2018
“The jazz festival rocks”
The following editorial from local newspaper, Brecon & Radnor Express, gives an overview of the weekend: “Music lovers flocked to Brecon over the weekend as the town was taken over by Brecon Jazz and the Fringe Festival. Not even the rain on Saturday could dampen the atmosphere – which was described by festival goers as…
Chris de Saram (10 June 1946–21 August 2018) . A life lived for jazz .
It is with great sadness that Wakefield Jazz announce that Chris de Saram, Wakefield Jazz promoter, has died aged 72. Friends recall him deep in conversation in the clubhouse whilst studying the Brecon Jazz programme and the concerts he’d enjoyed. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz and a deep enthusiasm which he shared with…