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![Dave Douglas: 'I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [dictate] what I want to do.' Photograph: Ashley Mitchell, Banff Centre](/newspaper/images/2007/0430/thumb/1177715673531_1.jpg?ts=1211004754 "Dave Douglas: 'I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [dictate] what I want to do.' Photograph: Ashley Mitchell, Banff Centre")
Dave Douglas finds inspiration in the oddest places, such as the
work and tragic life of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, writes
Ray Comiskey p
Lessons learned on the streets of New York
Willie Nile has spent 10 years in the musical wilderness, but now he's back with a new album and his inspiration is as strong as ever, he tells Tony Clayton-Lea p
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