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The Liberation Music Collective
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IN THE heart of Trump's cruel and buffoonish US, the troubadours of freedom are still making music, as evidenced by The Liberation Music Collective — two young scientists from Indiana who are also jazz musicians.
Bassist Hannah Fidler is a neuroscientist and trumpeter Matt Riggen a biologist and, in 2015, they gathered together a group of comrade musicians to give testimony to “a better, safer and freer world for us all,” using the messages and humanism of jazz.
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