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Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Jackie Hits the Daily Mail

Not quite music, but Jackie's first month at St. Andrews has been memorialized in the UK tabloid The Daily Mail:


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Friday, 10 October 2014

Keep Calm and Listen to Jazz


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