Jazz this week: St. Louis Cabaret Festival, Houston Person & Montez Coleman, New Orleans Jazz Vipers, and more

As yr. humble StLJN editor this week has been both swamped with paying-gig-type work and plagued by various equipment malfunctions, and this post is already late, this intro will be both mercifully brief and without embellishment.

Here are some of the more noteworthy jazz and creative music performances happening in and around St. Louis over the next few days: 

Wednesday, July 20
Saxophonist and East St. Louis native Andre Delano, now based on the West Coast, is back in town for a visit and will perform with Good 4 The Soul at The Lux.

Also tonight, the St. Louis Cabaret Festival gets underway with Broadway star Faith Prince and actor/singer Jason Graae performing at the Sheldon Concert Hall. For more about the festival and video samples of the headling performers, see this Saturday video post from a couple of weeks ago.

Elsewhere around town, singer Erin Bode will perform a free concert (weather permitting) for the Whitaker Music Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden; the Liberation Organ Trio plays at Evangeline's; and the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, featuring former St. Louisans Charlie Halloran on trombone and Chloe Feoranzo on clarinet will perform on a double-bill with Feoranzo's old band, the Sidney Street Shakers, at Foam.

The Vipers' gig is the first of four this week in St. Louis for the band, with shows to follow on Thursday at Joe's Cafe, Friday at Focal Point, and Saturday afternoon at the Blues City Deli. For more about that, see Terry Perkins' article about Halloran, Feorenzo and the band posted yesterday on the website of Alive! magazine.

Thursday, July 21
The St. Louis Cabaret Festival continues with singer Marilyn Maye (pictured, top left), her special guest Ann Hampton Callaway, and pianists Billy Stritch and Tedd Firth at the Sheldon Concert Hall. For more on  what the four of them have planned, listen to Maye and Callaway's interview from yesterday on St. Louis Public Radio.

Also on Thursday, trumpeter Danny Campbell leads a quartet in a free "Jazz in July" show for the Jazz at Holmes series at the Tisch Commons of Danforth University Center on the Washington University campus; and guitarist Brian Vaccaro and his trio will play at The Pat Connolly Tavern.

Friday, July 22
The St. Louis Cabaret Festival continues with pianist and singer Tony DeSare at the Sheldon, while over on the other side of Grand Ave, the veteran tenor saxophonist Houston Person (pictured, lower left) will be in town as a special guest soloist with drummer Montez Coleman's band as they undertake two nights of performances at Jazz at the Bistro. You can find out more about Coleman's shows in a preview story written by the Post-Dispatch's Calvin Wilson

Also on Friday, Second Generation Swing will play for dancers at the Casa Loma Ballroom; and trumpeter and singer Dawn Weber performs in a free outdoor concert as part of the summer series at 370 Lakeside Park in St. Peters.

Saturday, July 23
Singer Joe Mancuso and guitarist Dave Black will celebrate the release of their new duo CD with a performance at the Kranzberg Arts Center; bassist Bob DeBoo brings his trio to The Dark Room; saxophonist Tim Cunningham will be playing soul jazz and R&B at @Nesby's; and Miss Jubilee will offer up danceable swing, jump blues and more at the Casa Loma Ballroom.

Sunday, July 24
The Coleman Hughes Project will play an early evening show at The Rustic Goat; the Ambassadors of Swing return to Kirkwood Station Brewing Company; and the St. Louis Cabaret Festival wraps up with a final celebration and showcase of students from the coterminous St. Louis Cabaret Conference at the Ferring Jazz Bistro.

For more jazz-related events in and around St. Louis, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar, which can be found on the left sidebar of the site or by clicking here. You also can keep up with all the latest news by following St. Louis Jazz Notes on Twitter at http://twitter.com/StLJazzNotes or clicking the "Like" icon on the StLJN Facebook page.

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: 2016 St. Louis Cabaret Festival

This week, it's time to take a look at some of the performers who will part of the 2016 St. Louis Cabaret Festival, which will feature performances by touring headliners on Wednesday, July 20; Thursday, July 21; and Friday, July 22 at the Sheldon Concert Hall.

(A final performance on Sunday, July 24 at the Ferring Jazz Bistro will showcase participants from the St. Louis Cabaret Conference, an annual week-long event that encompasses the festival as well as daily educational programming for both aspiring and experienced cabaret performers, professional development, networking, and more.)

This year's festival will feature return appearances by several performers who have been well-received in years past, including longtime St. Louis favorite Ann Hampton Callaway and Kansas native Marilyn Maye, the amazingly spry 88-year-old who's been called the "grande dame of cabaret." They'll both be featured along with pianists Billy Stritch and Tedd Firth on Thursday night's show, titled "Marilyn Maye and her Piano Men".

Also returning for an encore appearance will be Broadway star Faith Prince, who was part of the event in 2014. This year, she'll team up with singer and actor Jason Graae on Wednesday night for "The Prince and the Showboy," which they first did together in 2012 in New York City.

New to the event in 2016 is singer and pianist Tony DeSare, who will be featured on Friday night. Though this is his first year as part of the Cabaret Festival, DeSare has played in St. Louis before, in 2007 at the Bistro and in 2011 at the Sheldon. You can see him in the first video up above, singing "Baby Dream Your Dream," a song from the Broadway musical Sweet Charity, at a gig in March of this year in Las Vegas.

After the jump, you can see DeSare performing his original song "Chemistry" in a recording made at the same Las Vegas gig.

Below that, there are a couple of examples of impromptu interaction between Ann Hampton Callaway and Marilyn Maye, as they're featured in two audience-made clips (one from 2010, the other undated) improvising a bit of blues and playing around with "Our Love Is Here To Stay".

(For more videos of Maye and Callaway, together and separately, plus a clip of Billy Stritch, see StLJN's preview of the 2014 fest. There also are a couple of nice clips of Maye in the preview post from 2015.)

You'll also find a couple of videos of Faith Prince in that 2014 post, and you can see her and Jason Graae in today's fifth clip, which excerpts from and promotes the NYC run of "The Prince and the Showboy".

Last but not least, the sixth and final video features Tedd Firth playing a solo piano version of "When A Woman Loves A Man," a song recorded by both Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday, as well as many others.

You can see the rest of today's videos after the jump...

Jazz this week: Bill Charlap Trio, Tony DeSare & Bucky Pizzarelli, and more

It's been a week of waterlogged weather here in St. Louis, but the soggy circumstances can't put a damper on all the jazz and creative music coming up in town over the next few days. Let's go the highlights...

Tonight, the fine pianist Bill Charlap and his trio open a four-night run continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. While Charlap has played in St. Louis before, this is the first time his trio has performed at the Bistro. You can find out more about Charlap and see some video clips by checking out this post from last Saturday.

Also tonight, the Meramec Jazz Lab Band, directed by Bob Boedges and now featuring singer Valerie Tichacek, will perform a concert at the Black Cat Theatre.

On Thursday, singers Alice Kinsella and Deborah Sharn will perform a cabaret show at the Kranzberg Arts Center under the auspices of the Presenters Dolan, with another performance on Friday night.

Also on Friday, Latin jazz group Ritmo Caliente performs at Robbie's House of Jazz, and keyboardist Nick Schlueter's trio with bassist Jessica Sacks and drummer Josh Costello will play the Cigar Inn in Belleville.

On Saturday, pianist/singer Tony DeSare and guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli will team up for a performance at the Sheldon Concert Hall on Saturday. Given that DeSare is influenced greatly by the swing, bop and Great American Songbook classics that have been Pizzarelli's bread and butter throughout his long career, this seems like a pretty good pairing. What's more, The Sheldon is offering a discount on tickets to the concert; see this post for details.

Also Saturday, saxophonist and instrument designer Peter Ponzol will present a free sax clinic at Saxquest; singer Mae Wheeler performs at Seasons American Cuisine in Chesterfield; saxophonist Stan Coleman's University Youth Jazz Big Band will be at Robbie's, and electronic musician and former St. Louisan Tom Hamilton will do a concert for New Music Circle at the Kranzberg Arts Center.

On Sunday, it's time once again for the monthly jam session at Bossanova Restuarant and Lounge in Alton featuring saxophonist Jason Swagler and guitarist Eric Slaughter's trio. Also on Sunday, those who still enjoy their recorded jazz in physical media formats may want to check out the St. Louis Record Collector and CD Show at the American Czech Center on the south side.

For more jazz-related events in St. Louis this weekend and beyond, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar, which can be found on the left sidebar of the site or by clicking here. You also can keep up with all the latest news by following St. Louis Jazz Notes on Twitter at http://twitter.com/StLJazzNotes or clicking the "Like" icon on the StLJN Facebook page.

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(Edited to correct the dates of the Presenters Dolan shows.)

The Sheldon offering discounted tickets for Tony DeSare & Bucky Pizzarelli

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Metrotix are offering a special discount price on tickets to the performance by singer/pianist Tony DeSare (pictured) and guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli at the Sheldon on Saturday, April 30.

The advertised ticket price is $45 for orchestra seats, $40 for the balcony, but online buyers can purchase tickets for just $25 each with the promotional code. To get the discounted price, go to www.metrotix.com/promotions, select "The Sheldon" from among the venues listed, and enter promo code DESARE11.

Jazz St. Louis adds new podcasts, feeds

Jazz St. Louis has made available two more podcasts in their ongoing series.

The third installment in the series features an interview with JSL director of education Phil Dunlap, and can be heard here. The fourth and latest podcast interview to go online features saxophonist Javon Jackson, who will be in St. Louis next week to perform with pianist Les McCann at Jazz at the Bistro. That podcast can be heard here.

JSL Web guru Adam Roach reports that the organization's site now has a new community section that will serve as a library for the series of podcasts, a soon-to-be-added set of photo galleries, and other materials. You can go directly to the list of available podcasts here. (As a result of the site remodeling, the links previously provided here to past interviews with Tony DeSare and Cedar Walton have changed. You now can find the DeSare podcast here, and the Walton podcast here.)

Users can also subscribe to the Jazz St. Louis podcast feed using iTunes or any podcast software using this link, and the JSL podcasts also are available now through the Apple iTunes store.

Jazz St. Louis podcasts offer interviews with visiting artists

Although it somehow escaped my notice until now, earlier this month Jazz St. Louis launched a series of podcasts featuring interviews with visiting artists performing at Jazz at the Bistro.

There are two podcasts online so far, with JSL executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford conversing with pianist and singer Tony DeSare, who played the Bistro two weeks ago, and pianist Cedar Walton, who's performing there this week. You can stream or download the DeSare interview here, while the Walton interview is here.

Jazz this week: The Cunninghams, Tony DeSare, "BAG and Beyond," and more

It's a week of homecomings for St. Louis jazz, as performers from both the Gaslight Square era of the early 1960s and the experimental period of the late 1960s return to local venues.

The Gaslight Square veteran is singer/percussionist/multi-instrumentalist Don Cunningham, who now lives in Las Vegas and works with his wife Alicia, a singer and pianist, as The Cunninghams. They'll be at the Sheldon Concert Hall this evening with an act that's a mix of cleverly arranged jazz vocals, straightahead swing, Latin jazz, lounge music and exotica, honed by many years touring the United States and Asia as headliners and as featured performers with the Count Basie Orchestra. I wrote more about The Cunninghams when they were in town in July 2007, and you can read those posts here and here.

Also returning to St. Louis this weekend are saxophonist Oliver Lake, trumpeter Rasul Siddik and other members of the original Black Artists Group, the musicians and artists collective that flourished here briefly in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Lake, Siddik, and many other former BAG members will be at the Metropolitan Gallery downtown this weekend in conjunction with a three-day series of events dubbed "BAG and Beyond."

It starts with a reception on Friday evening for an exhibit by artist Oliver Jackson, another co-founder of the multi-disciplinary arts collective. Saturday's concert will showcase Siddik, performing with pianist Katy Roberts, plus a group led by saxophonist Freddie Washington and featuring young trumpeter Marlon Bonds, plus additional musical, poetry and spoken word performances. On Sunday, Lake will perform on a bill that also includes his fellow World Saxophone Quartet member and BAG co-founder, baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett (who still lives nearby in Brooklyn, IL), poet Quincy Troupe and others. For more on the "BAG and Beyond" weekend, see the posts here, here and here. (As an aside, this week's edition of the St. Louis American features some previously unpublished poetry by Troupe and other BAG associated writers; read their work online here.)

Elsewhere in town, clarinetist Scott Alberici will give a free concert tonight to kick off the fall 2008 Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University. Alberici probably is the preeminent local player on his instrument, with great technical facility and a pleasing tone, and his incorporation of modern influences - to these ears, similar in some ways to the approach of Eddie Daniels - allows him to demonstrate respect for the long history of the clarinet in jazz without being completely hemmed in by traditional conceptions.

Last but not least, singer/pianist Tony DeSare (pictured) has returned for another stint at Jazz at the Bistro, where he'll perform through Saturday night. (DeSare's not from St. Louis, but given that this is his fourth trip here in the last three years, he's probably starting to feel somewhat at home.) If you're a fan of vintage Frank Sinatra or and/or Harry Connick Jr., chances are you'll enjoy DeSare, who's a highly skilled piano player as well as a personable entertainer. You can see a couple of videos of DeSare in action here.

These performances are just some of the week's highlights, so to see listings of more jazz-related events in and around St. Louis this weekend and beyond, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar.

(If you have calendar items, band schedule information, news tips, links, or anything else you think may be of interest to StLJN's readers, please email the information to stljazznotes (at) yahoo (dot) com. If you have photos, MP3s or other digital files, please send links, not attachments.

StLJN Saturday at the Movies: Spotlight on Tony DeSare

This week, we continue our series of previews of this fall's coming attractions and shine the the Saturday video spotlight on Tony DeSare, a singer and pianist who will perform at Jazz at the Bistro from Wednesday, September 10 through Saturday, September 13. This actually will be DeSare's fourth gig for Jazz St. Louis in the last three years, as he made his debut at the Bistro two seasons ago; returned last September to kick off the 2007-08 season; and provided the entertainment for JSL's benefit gala this past spring.

The first clip is from Desare's appearance a couple of years ago on the CBS Saturday Early Show. The song is "We've Got A World That Swings," and DeSare is accompanied by Mike Lee on bass, Brian Czach on drums, and the great jazz veteran Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar.

In the second video, DeSare demonstrates his pianistic prowess in a performance of "Fly Me To The Moon" at the Jazz Arts Project's 2007 Summer Jazz Cafe in Red Bank, NJ. Given that DeSare is something of a Frank Sinatra aficionado, and even played the title role in the Off-Broadway musical Our Sinatra, one might expect him to offer a version not too different from Ol' Blue Eyes' rendition of the tune.

One would be wrong, as instead he goes in the opposite direction, performing the song as a piano-driven instrumental in a sort of mutant stride/Erroll Garner style. There's certainly room to debate whether or not this is a good and/or tasteful approach for this particular song...but there's no doubt it's different, and an impressive performance from a technical standpoint.



(Edited 7/22/08 to fix a typo.)

Jazz this week: Jeanne Trevor, Kim Portnoy Jazz Orchestra, "Cool Art & Hot Jazz," Audrey Chen and Frederic Blondy, and more

Although there are no huge marquee names performing in St. Louis this weekend, the next several days nevertheless are packed with a variety of events that will appeal to fans of jazz and creative music. Let's go to the highlights:

On Thursday night, saxophonist Jerry performs a free concert featuring the music of John Coltrane at Washington University as part of the Jazz at Holmes series, while the St. Louis Jazz Orchestra, directed by bassist Jim Widner, does its regular monthly gig at Jazz at the Bistro.

During the day on Saturday and Sunday, there's "Cool Art & Hot Jazz", a festival sponsored by the Greater St. Louis Art Association at the Greensfelder Recreation Center in Queeny Park. The event features 125 visual artists from across the country and a children's art discovery program as well as live music. Saturday's performers include the John Chiecsek Trio, Dave Black (pictured) playing solo guitar and with his Quartet, and the duo of singer Al Oxenhandler and keyboardist Curt Landes. Sunday will feature smooth jazz from the Readus Miller Project and something called Curtis Blackstar - Music Extravaganza, about which neither the GSLAA's site nor Google has much to say.

Saturday evening features a couple of events that fall into the "creative music" category, starting with cellist Audrey Chen and pianist Frederic Blondy, who will perform at Open Lot, the arts collective and performance space at 1320 S. 18th St. For more about Chen and Blondy, see this post from last Saturday.

That same night, New Music Circle presents a multimedia performance at the Mildred E. Bastian Performing Arts Center at St. Louis Community College - Forest Park. The event will feature spoken word artist Chris Mann and the 2007 edition of composer Rob Voisey’s "60x60," with video by St. Louis multimedia artist Zlatko Cosic. Mann is described as a "pioneer in the field of compositional linguistics" who has performed with Thomas Buckner, Annea Lockwood, and Larry Polansky and received commissions from the BBC, NPR, John Cage, and Ars Electronica. "60x60" is a recorded music project directed by Voisey that showcases 60 electronic works of 60 seconds or less in length, each by a different composer, that are played in succession to create a one-hour concert.

If you're more in the mood for something mainstream on Saturday, singer Jeanne Trevor is having a CD release party at Cookie's Jazz and More. I wish I could tell you more about the event and/or the CD, but neither Trevor nor Cookie's has sent out any details, at least not to me. Suffice it to say that Trevor has been one of St. Louis' most esteemed and most reliable performers over the past four or five decades, and I'd expect the show and the CD both to be up to her usual standards.

And let's not forget that Saturday is also when Jazz St. Louis has its annual fundraising benefit gala and auction, featuring a performance by singer and pianist Tony DeSare. I don't know if there are still tickets available for this event, but if you've got the dough - $500 per person - and want to go, I'd suggest that you get in touch with JSL development director Melissa Jones and see if they can squeeze you in.

On Sunday, guitarist Todd Mosby brings his group to BB's Jazz Blues and Soups to perform his signature blend of jazz, fusion and Indian classical music. Also on Sunday, BAG presents a spoken word event titled "Rivers of Women, a National Poetry Month Tribute to Women" that will feature performance poetry from Shirley Bradley LeFlore, Marsha Cann, Blue-Mashibini and others. The event is free and takes place in the Rosebud Café at the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site.

Looking beyond the weekend, on Tuesday pianist and composer Kim Portnoy and his Jazz Orchestra are doing a show for the "Notes From Home" series at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Portnoy has assembled an impressive lineup of musicians to play his original compositions, including bassist Ric Vice, drummer Kevin Gianino, guitarist Tom Byrne, trumpeters Randy Holmes and Paul Hecht, saxophonists Paul DeMarinis, Mike Karpowicz and Rob Hughes, and trombonists Brett Stamps and Jim Martin. The program will feature all of the music from their CD Wash Away The Dust of Everyday Life, plus some newer work. Also on Tuesday, singer Valerie Tichacek performs Brazilian-influenced jazz at The Gramophone, and Brandt's features the swinging mainstream sounds of Trio Trés Bien.

That ought to be enough choices to hold all but the most voracious music fan for a little while, but if you're still looking for more, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar for additional listings of jazz events this weekend and beyond.

(If you have calendar items, band schedule information, news tips, links, or anything else you think may be of interest to StLJN's readers, please email the information to stljazznotes (at) yahoo (dot) com. If you have photos, MP3s or other digital files, please send links, not attachments.)

Jazz St. Louis benefit gala to include auction

There may be just a few days left until Jazz St. Louis' annual benefit gala, which will be held Saturday, April 5 at Nieman Marcus in Plaza Frontenac, but I'm guessing that if you've got the dough to afford the tickets, which go for $500 per person, they probably can still squeeze you in. The evening will feature music from the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars student ensemble during the cocktail hour, dinner, a live auction and a concert by singer and pianist Tony DeSare.

If you can't make it to the benefit event, you can still support the fundraising effort for JSL's educational programs by bidding one of the various items up for auction. There's a trip to the Hollywood Bowl; a New York City jazz travel package; a gold and turquoise necklace; a towboat voyage along the Mississippi River; a private lunch and wine tasting at Joseph Phelps Vineyards; a package featuring tickets, gift certificates, and memberships from local arts organizations, and even what is described as "Jazz St. Louis Executive Director Gene Dobbs Bradford's Gourmet Feast for Twelve."

It doesn't specify if Bradford actually will be cooking said feast himself, or simply serving as genial host, but either way, money raised goes to support Jazz St. Louis' educational programs and outreach efforts, which include bringing free performances by local and touring jazz musicians to local schools. Interested parties can submit a bid for any of the auction items to JSL development director Melissa Jones via email at melissa@jazzstl.org through Thursday, April 3.

Jazz St. Louis announces dates for benefit gala, NYC trip

Finally catching up with a few items from last week, I see that staff members of Jazz St. Louis are now blogging away at the organization's newly redesigned Web site, particularly development director Melissa Jones, whose entries this past week contained a couple of newsworthy items.

For starters, JSL has set Saturday, April 5, 2008 at the date for their next benefit gala, an event that is one of the organization's major fundraisers of the year. There's no word yet as to ticket prices, but the event will be held, believe it or not, at the Nieman Marcus store at Plaza Frontenac, with cocktail hour music from the THF Realty All-Star Student Ensemble plus pianist and singer Tony DeSare as the featured entertainer.

Now, I don't quite know what to make of the location, although from what I understand, other not-for-profit organizations have also held fundraising events there. I guess if nothing else, it's in a part of town that's home to many people who attend such charity events.

As for the music, DeSare seems like a decent choice in the sense of having sufficient musical credibility to appeal to jazz fans, while being accessible to those who aren't hardcore aficionados. Moreover, I'm sure his fee is quite a bit less than that of, say, Al Jarreau, who had been scheduled to headline JSL's benefit this past year until he canceled and was replaced by the Neville Brothers, no bargain-basement act themselves. The selection of DeSare suggests that JSL likely has analyzed the returns from previous galas, and decided the event itself is the main attraction and that they can live with any trade-offs that may result from booking a talented but less well-known performer.

In another entry, Jones announced that JSL will be sponsoring a trip to New York City from April 18 - 20, 2008. There aren't many details available right now, but the trip will be put together by Altair Travel and the itinerary will include jazz clubs, dining and shopping. So, if you particularly like group travel, or if this otherwise seems like your sort of thing, you can contact Jones to reserve a spot by calling 314-289-4037 or emailing her at melissa@jazzstl.org.

Jazz this week: Tony DeSare at the Bistro, Erin Bode at SLAM, and more

This week in St. Louis jazz isn't nearly as busy as the last couple have been, but there are still some shows worth bringing to your attention.

For starters, singer/pianist Tony DeSare (pictured) is this week's featured attraction at Jazz at the Bistro, doing two sets a night through Saturday. DeSare started in musical theater, performing in, among other things, a show celebrating the music of Frank Sinatra. And the Sinatra influence remains present in what I've heard of DeSare's music, along with hints of Bennett, Torme and other Italian-American crooners, Harry Connick, Jr., and other jazz-pop performers.

Those influences may still be somewhat unassimilated at this point, but then again, DeSare is young and still evolving, and few, if any of the other artists mentioned above would do some of the material DeSare covers, such as songs from Carole King and Prince. DeSare made his St. Louis debut with a two-night engagement at the Bistro last season, and now merits a four-night stand, which tells me that he must have made a positive impression in terms of both musical quality and audience response.

You can see and hear a sample of DeSare by checking out the YouTube clip below, which was recorded in January 2007 and shows him doing a solo version of an original tune called "Mundy on Tuesdays".

UPDATE - 3/1/07 - The Post-Dispatch's Calvin Wilson has a brief interview with DeSare in today's paper, available online here.

Speaking of singers, St. Louis' own Erin Bode is performing a free concert at 6 p.m. Saturday night in the Griggs Gallery of the Saint Louis Art Museum. And speaking of free shows, guitarist Vince Varvel is doing one Thursday night for Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series.

There's more at the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar, with updates for March in progress over the next couple of days as band and club schedules come in and data gets entered. Or if you're interested in finding out who's at a specific venue, please see the sidebar, where an extensive selection of fine links is available for your clicking and reading pleasure.

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