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I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
Gavin Bryars
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Gavin Bryars
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 16
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Double-Bassist
Jazz Musician
Musicologist
Goole
East Riding of Yorkshire
Richard Gavin Bryars
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