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We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

Fred Frith

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Fred Frith
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 17
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Jazz Guitarist
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Violinist
Heathfield
East Sussex
Jeremy Webster Fred Frith
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I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
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