JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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ALWAYS AN INNOVATOR: Barry Guy
[Dmitry Rozhkov]
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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BASSIST Barry Guy was born in London in 1947, the son of a tram conductor who went on to work in the tea trade and the BBC.
At school, he learned to play his twin sister’s recorder, then a one-string tea-chest bass when a “thump” was needed. As a teenager, he was a Beatles and Rolling Stones fan, but his life changed when his dad brought home a Giants of Jazz record featuring Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey.
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