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John Edwards and Mark Sanders
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STRANGE how a boyhood encounter with a two-stringed ukulele could have sparked the formation of one of Britain’s finest improvising bassists.
John Edwards was born in Hounslow, west London, in 1964. His elder brother played drums in a punk band and John would add to the rhythm on the front room chair arms.
When he picked up the ukulele, he made bass lines by plucking its two strings as if it were a bass guitar.
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