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Though she didn’t call it third stream, and it wasn’t from the genre, Hazel Scott was another musician who found an effective method to blend jazz and classical influences. Scott took traditional choices and improvised in it, a practice dating back again to the ragtime period. Such figures as “Hungarian …

Youthful Tiger was a central figure in the evolution from the calypso sound that dominated London in the years subsequent World Battle II. Though not really a calypsonian by rigorous description, he was one of the primary generation of music artists to migrate in the Caribbean to THE UK, and …