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Slouching Towards Birdland (Will Friedwald's SubStack)

Will Friedwald, Elizabeth Zimmer, MuchoMusic from Dan Fortune
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Will Friedwald's Substack - covering mostly music (primarily jazz and the Great American Songbook) but also theater, film, fiction, comics, Muppets, and other aspects of popular culture.

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