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I am looking forward to the Tim Weimer session. By the way was reminded of your recent writing about American music /jazz in the USSR this morning on NPR they had a segment about a musician born in Moscow but now lives in USA. She referred to her Grandparents talking of Stalin outlawing listening to American Jazz and secretly distributing jazz music on old X-RAY films. Can’t make it up! Here is a link if Interested.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156477701/violinists-album-honors-the-underground-effort-to-keep-jazz-alive-after-stalins

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I love this!! My favorite quote: "Initially I found out about this history by hearing different slogans that existed in the Soviet Union. Like there's one: 'First, he's listening to jazz, and next thing he's going to sell the motherland.'"

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