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'The high priest of free jazz'

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In this edition, American jazz musician Archie Shepp is our guest. He is 'the high priest of free jazz'. Then, we go to Turkey for a musical play called 'Armenian Concert or Turkish Proverb' mentioning the Genocide.

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