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Colin

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About Me

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Colin Paddy is my name, I was born in the England on the 4th July 1965 to Guyanese parentage. Since my early childhood I spent over a dozen years in South America.Before my return to the UK. I have attended ER Burrowes of Art after graduating I returned to England during the latter part of the 1980's. I took the opportunity to go and study first at the Newham College of Further Education for my HND in Communications Design followed by attending the University of Westminster where I successfully graduated with BA honours degree as well as a Postgraduate Masters degree. I went on to work for the BBC. Also having a passion for Jazz.

My Interests

Apart from from being a great lover of Cricket. I also have general interest is all that's jazz. My aim is to produce an updated and re-vitalised interactive magazine to reflect the diversity, freshness in aid to promoting every angle within live jazz on-line extensively with cutting-edge graphics the latest technology among other packages geared towards extending it to a wider audience in the 21st century.

I'd like to meet:

Many key players within the Jazzy World like Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Donald Byrd, Ahmad Jamal, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett, Alice Coltrane, George Benson, Wynton Marsalis, Courtney Pine, Ronny Jordan, Bebel Gilberto, Norah Jones and other musical legends such as Chaka Khan, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Roy Ayers, Aretha Frankin and Stevie Wonder, Dr Dre amount others.

Music:

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue & Bitches Brew, John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Blue Train and A Love Supreme, Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins, The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman, Stevie Wonder - Talking Book, Innervisions, Fullingness First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life. Herbie Hancock - Headhunters, Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles, Fat Albert Rotunda, Man-Child & Future Shock, Marvin Gaye - What's Goin'On, Bill Withers - Just As I Am and Still Bill, Michael Jackson - Off the Wall, Parliament - Mothership Connection, Curtis Mayfield - Superfly, Grover Washington jr - Mister Magic, O'Jays - Backstabbers & Ship Ahoy, Rufus & Chaka Khan - Rags to Rufus, George Benson - Breezin', The Antidote - Ronny Jordan, Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil.

Movies:

'Round Midnight, Mo, Better Blues, Enter the Dragon, Star Wars, Unforgiven, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Dirty Harry, Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser, In the heat of the Night, Shaft(Original), Let's Do it Again, Annie Hall, The Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa, Schindler's List amount others.

Television:

Documentaries, Wildlife, Test Match Special - Cricket.

Books:

The Torah-Hebrew Bible, The Rise of a Jazz Art World - Paul Lopes, In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz - Donald M. Marquis, Blue Note Records - Richard Cook, Jazz Next Standard - Spritual Jazz, Middle Passage by C.L.R James, Beyond a boundary by C.L.R James who quote the phrase''What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?''

Heroes:

GOD, Family, Moses, Frederick Douglass, Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela, Dr Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jessie Owens, Pele, Sir Garfield Sobers, John Arlott and the greatest cricketing alrounder and the most successful West Indies Cricket team captained by Clive Lloyd.