by Max Décharné
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Jack Maher, ‘The Many Types Of Jazz’, Billboard, April 28, 1962
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Mike Nevard, ‘Jazz in Danger’, Melody Maker, June 30, 1956
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Andy Nickolds, ‘Bazza Gets It On’, Time Out, March 12 – 18, 1976
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Paul O’Neil, ‘The Only Rebellion Around’, Life, November 30, 1959
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‘Rhyming Slang’, Daily Express, July 14, 1900
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Bill Sachs, ‘With the Country Jockeys’, Billboard, January 26, 1963
‘Salford Hundred Quarter Sessions’, Manchester Guardian, October 28, 1880
Clyde Sanger, ‘Progress in Watts, but Tension Still’, The Guardian, August 19, 1966
‘Sayings and Doings’, The Satirist and Sporting Chronicle, March 25, 1843
Jesse Scheidlower,‘Crying Wolof’, Slate.com, December 8, 2004
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Donald Seaman, ‘They Went Thataway’, Daily Express, October 24, 1953
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Thomas Thompson, ‘The New Far-Out Beatles’, Life, June 16, 1967
T.I.M, ‘American Slang – “Wising the Booboisie”’, Sydney Morning Herald, May 10, 1935
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Tom Tullett and Howard Johnson, ‘The “Squealer” Gives Yard 10 Names’, Daily Mirror, August 14, 1963
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Edward Wickham, ‘Radio’, Church Times, November 1, 2002
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