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The Jazz Years

LIKE Duke Ellington and Earl Scrugg before him, Sir Alfred Sherman has long been a source of inspiration to a rich variety of creative artists. It was while taking a youthful......

Afore Ye Go

Leaves from the commonplace book of Wallace Arnold IT WAS while Alfie 'Duke' Sherman, as he then was, was playing back-up trom- bone for the late, great Satchmo that he first......

The Policy Years

BACK in London, Sir Sher, as he now styled himself, founded the Dance Centre for Policy Studies, with the intention of combining right-wing Conservative thought with the Negro......