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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Steve Barbone wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>And it is also growing for the followers of "Norway"
modern jazz, ......... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Steve, I take on board your comments but would
like to advise that Norway's largest International Jazz Festival is in
Haugesund, Norway. Sildajazz is very much a Tradjazz festival and
basically OKOM. The festival in Oslo is smaller and heavily into modern
jazz. Sydney-Zenith played Haugusund last year for the second time,
its a fantastic place on the water where the whole town is in Mardi Gras mode
with boats tied five abreast along the quay front.
Whilst at</FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=3> 2000 Sildajazz Festival we saw Freddy Lonzo
(tb), </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=3>Frank Jackson (s), Tom Baker (t), Joe Muranyi
(cl), </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=3>John “Bucky” Pizzarelli (ag), Ernest Elly (d) and Arwell
Shaw (sb) with Lars Edegren (p).<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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/><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Arial> We also caught
up again with Lillian Boutte in Norway, she and her husband did a gospel
service with us in Edinburgh the week before.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cheers and beers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Tom Wood</FONT></DIV>
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