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"Tempo - The British Blue Note"...
'Tempo - The British Blue Note' - The page below should be read left to right, top to bottom....It contains the excellent booklet written by Simon Spillett which explains how Tony Hall kept the Tempo label alive virtually single handedly in the 1950s and 1960s. The booklet accompanied the 2016 Acrobat Records four CD re-issue of many classic Tempo recordings. Link... (There are individual web pages for many of the musicians referred to in the text below...)




































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