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Article: Django's Cosmic Echo

Chapter Ten: Blueprints and New Blood

by Alan Bryson
June 27, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 The Monday meeting with Mr. Alistair Finch, the solicitor Ronnie Scott had recommended, was a refreshingly straightforward affair. ...

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Chapter Nine: Big Deal

by Alan Bryson
June 26, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 Relying on Dirk Bakker's wise counsel was rapidly proving to be one of the most providential decisions of ...

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Chapter Seven: The Night London Heard

by Alan Bryson
June 24, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 The afternoon soundcheck at Ronnie Scott's legendary jazz club in Soho was, by all accounts, explosive. Django, testing ...

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Chapter Six: The London Gambit

by Alan Bryson
June 23, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 The Paradiso gig was more than a lightning strike; it was an earthquake. By a stroke of luck ...

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Chapter Five: The Brotherhood

by Alan Bryson
June 20, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 The year 1968 dawned over Amsterdam like a freshly painted psychedelic mural--vibrant, chaotic, and humming with a restless ...

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Chapter Four: The Name on the Marquee

by Alan Bryson
June 19, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 Back in Amsterdam, the crisp Belgian Acte de Naissance for “Willem Bakker" felt like a heavy gold coin ...

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Chapter Three: The Uncle and the Ghost

by Alan Bryson
June 18, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 The back room of Dirk's record shop had become more than just a place for Django to occasionally ...

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Chapter Two: The Flood

by Alan Bryson
June 17, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 Initially, his survival instincts had kicked in. As the disorienting shock of this new world sank in, he ...

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Chapter One: The Dam Square Shuffle

by Alan Bryson
June 16, 2025

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 One minute, Django Reinhardt, seventeen years of raw Manouche talent and nervous pre-nuptial jitters, was breathing the familiar ...

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Sam Sadigursky: Making Things

by Katchie Cartwright
May 5, 2025

Los Angeles-bred New York-based clarinetist and multi-reedist Sam Sadigursky enjoys a varied and distinguished career, performing and recording with a number of renowned ensembles, including those of composers Darcy James Argue and Philip Glass, pianists Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch, pop stars David Byrne and Tom Jones, among others, in addition to his own projects.