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The Lancashire Students' Jazz Orchestra: Last Call

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

Webster defines a “student” as, among other things, “an attentive and systematic observer.” The young musicians in the Lancashire Students’ Jazz Orchestra — whose average age, we’re told, is fifteen — have evidently been paying close attention to their teachers, as the orchestra is much better schooled than one would expect from those who are wrestling with the basics of Jazz and learning how to work together as an ensemble. Having said that, it must be noted that they do ...