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Taverners Big Band: A Night in the Tavern
by Jack Bowers
Remember taverns? Saloons? Speakeasies? They're called nightclubs now. Or restaurants. Or supper clubs - at least, in this neck of the woods they are. But merrie olde England still has its monarchy and its taverns, and even has a Taverners Big Band, the idea for whose formation was born in 1983 after an evening of Christmas revelry and caroling at the Castle Tavern in Christchurch. The Taverners have been playing ever since, and playing with notable competence, if this debut ...
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