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Few jazz-oriented musicians may claim to possess studied with famous French composition instructor Nadia Boulanger; certainly, English violinist Phillip Wachsmann will be the only 1 — living, anyhow. Needless to say, Wachsmann isn’t exactly a jazz musician. He found free improvisation with the music of such 20th hundred years traditional …

Most artists need to pay out their dues, but hardly any need to be smuggled from their delivery countries in order to avoid loss of life along the way. But also for Geoffrey Oryema, which was the only path to survive. Created in Uganda, he was the boy of the …