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Love is Glynde
JOE GILL wallows in superb evenings of jazz, funk and rap, and only regrets that savouring the music displaced his opportunity to heckle
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MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
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Love Supreme Festival
Glynd, East Sussex
THE modern music festival can descend into an exercise in highly commercial nostalgia for old rockers and their fans. But some old acts are like rare gems that deserve new audiences.
On the Glynde estate in Sussex, hundreds gathered in fevered excitement in a huge tent as Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke in a warm, soft voice introduced his next song, Freedom.
With his international band of top-flight musicians (trumpet, sax, cello, conga player, flute, double bass and drummer), what followed lifted that lucky audience into a state of mesmerised transcendence.
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