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East Devon council leader Paul Arnott
Published:
10:30 AM April 30, 2021
Many people have been getting out and discovering the local countryside around the Sid Valley. View from Fire Beacon Hill
- Credit: Alex Walton Photography
No more excuses. The sun is out, the days are lengthening and it’s time to get out into the fresh air, after what has been for many a year of semi-hibernation. And where better in our country to do it than right here?
The website I would commend to you is https://eastdevon.gov.uk/countryside/ where you can find the many opportunities in our own backyard. The envelope for all of this is the council-backed Wild East Devon project, where the council acts as steward for some remarkable habitats. There are short introductory videos for some of them on the site too, which are well worth a view before you set off.
Mentors & Protégés Share
KUVO JAZZ has celebrated Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April for years, with a different musical “them e” each year. The 2021 theme is “Mentors and Protégés.”
Such a pair were the pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, who together in the 1940’s staked out the playing field for their instrument in what was known as modern jazz. Jazz View, New York Times
Indeed, the art form of jazz (nay, the entire practice of music) depends on the ancient master-to-student conveyance of the disciplines, tips, tricks, theory, and attitude to truly learn the secret, coded language. (Many have been self-taught, but no artist gets very far without confronting the masters’ work in front of them.)
Frog turns blue for first time in 700 years amid calls for rare amphibians to be reintroduced to Britain
Moor frogs are a tourist attraction in other countries, as amphibian enthusiasts hunt for them in spring
There is some evidence the moor frog once lived in Britain
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A moor frog has turned blue in the UK for the first time in 700 years amid calls for the rare creature to be returned to Britain.
The frogs are widespread across Europe, and turn a distinctive shade of blue in Spring as they prepare to mate, from their natural muddy green colour.
Mentors and Protégés Share
KUVO JAZZ has celebrated Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April for years, with a different musical “them e” each year. The 2021 theme is “Mentors and Protégés.”
In life, trumpeter
Woody Shaw and saxophonist
Dexter Gordon – two instrumental giants of the jazz idiom – were often connected. They both lived in Europe, (Gordon for 14 years in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and Shaw briefly in 1964), they were friends and frequent collaborators, and their respective recording careers were re-fashioned at Columbia Records by producer Michael Cuscuna. In 2013, Maxine and her son Woody Shaw III founded The Dexter Gordon Society, a nonprofit cultural organization created to preserve, document, and present their collective life’s work.