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CHRIS SEARLE on Jazz
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
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Dee Byrne and Entropi
Moment Frozen
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THE Concise Oxford Dictionary defines “entropy” as “a measure of the rate of transfer of information in a message,” while the great London bassist Barry Guy in the sleeve notes of his album Oort-Entropy adds that such a transfer is “imperative, changing the body but keeping the characteristics intact.”
Does it sound like the process of jazz?
Perhaps the south London altosaxophonist Dee Byrne and her bandmates know best, since they call their band Entropi.
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