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• Pete Marsh
• 27 Feb 07, 03:10 PM

Despite all the copyright hoohah surrounding it, there's no doubt that Youtube has some unbelievably good stuff on it. And if that wasn't enough, they've made their jazz content much easier to find...say hello to !

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Jazz Grammys: business as usual?

• Alex Webb
• 14 Feb 07, 11:53 AM

In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about the centre of Jazz gravity moving from the United States to Europe. Indeed, in 2005 journalist Stuart Nicholson wrote a whole book on the subject - Is Jazz Dead (Or Has it Moved to a New Address)? and has frequently returned to the subject in his regular columns for Jazzwise. Of course, it’s a subject about which views tend to vary depending on which side of the pond you live. But few listeners (or critics) would argue that there has been a new confidence and freedom in European jazz in the last decade or so which – significantly – has coincided with the passing of many of the great American jazz giants of the 1940s and 1950s.

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