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| | John Surman - musicolog.com |
 | | Born in Devon in 1944, composer/multi-instrumentalist John Surman is one of the key figures in a generation of European musicians who have crucially expanded the international horizons of jazz in the 70s and 80s. |
 | | As wll as his association with Westbrook, there was varied experience with Alexis Korner, Ronnie Scott, Humphrey Lyttleton, the Brotherhood of Breath and John McLaughlin, and he forged lasting relationships with John Warren, John Taylor and Dave Holland. |
 | | A further commission in 1996 from Salisbury Festival allowed John to return to a long-standing fascination with choral music, producing Proverbs and Songs, an extended work for solo saxophones, pipe organ (John Taylor) and the 80-strong Salisbury Festival Chorus, directed by Howard Moody, and premiered in Salisbury Cathedral. |
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