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Abbey Lincoln

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Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions. [1]

91 relations: Abbey Is Blue, Al Foster, Alice Childress, All in the Family, Archie Shepp, Babatunde Olatunji, Beau Bridges, Benny Carter, Billie Holiday, Blue Note Jazz Club, Bobby Hutcherson, Candid Records, Cass County, Michigan, Cedar Walton, Charlie Haden, Chicago, Civil and political rights, Civil rights movement, Clark Terry, Dave Liebman, Drugstore Cowboy, Enja Records, For All We Know (1934 song), For Love of Ivy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film), Gil Goldstein, Golden Globe Award, Grady Tate, Graham Haynes, Hank Jones, Harold Vick, Inner City Records, Institute of Jazz Studies, It's Magic (album), It's Time (Max Roach album), Ivan Dixon, J. J. Johnson, Jackie McLean, James Spaulding, James Weidman, Jazz, Jerry González, Joe Lovano, Julien Lourau, Kenny Barron, Larry Campbell (musician), Liberty Records, Manhattan, Marc Cary, Marcus Welby, M.D., ..., Marge Records, Marilyn Monroe, Marty Paich, Max Roach, Michael Roemer, Mission: Impossible, Mo' Better Blues, Moon Faced and Starry Eyed, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Jazz Masters, New York City, Nicholas Payton, Nothing But a Man, Oliver Lake, Pat Metheny, Polydor Records, Riverside Records, Rodney Kendrick, Roy Hargrove, Rutgers University, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee, Stage name, Stan Getz, Stanley Turrentine, Steve Coleman, Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album), Sweet Basil Jazz Club, Tarik Shah, Television film, That's Him!, The Girl Can't Help It, The Maestro (Cedar Walton album), The Name of the Game (TV series), The New York Times, The Staple Singers, Verve Records, Victor Lewis, We Insist!, WGBH-TV, Yoron Israel. Expand index (41 more) »

Abbey Is Blue

Abbey Is Blue is the fourth album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Riverside label.

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Al Foster

Al Foster (born January 18, 1944) is an American jazz drummer.

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Alice Childress

Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994) was an American playwright, actor, and author, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."Mary Helen Washington,, in Bill Mullen and James Edward Smethurst (eds), Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States, Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, p. 186.

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All in the Family

All in the Family is an American sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979.

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Babatunde Olatunji

Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 – April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist.

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Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director.

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Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Blue Note Jazz Club

Blue Note Jazz Club is a jazz club and restaurant located at 131 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.

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Bobby Hutcherson

Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player.

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Candid Records

Candid Records is a record label specialising in jazz, now based in the United Kingdom.

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Cass County, Michigan

Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Cedar Walton

Cedar Anthony Walton, Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist.

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Charlie Haden

Charles Edward "Charlie" Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator known for his deep, warm sound, and whose career spanned more than fifty years.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Clark Terry

Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.

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Dave Liebman

David Liebman (born September 4, 1946) is an American saxophonist and flautist.

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Drugstore Cowboy

Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant.

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Enja Records

Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.

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For All We Know (1934 song)

"For All We Know" is a popular song published in 1934.

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For Love of Ivy

For Love of Ivy is a 1968 romantic comedy film directed by Daniel Mann.

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American Technicolor musical comedy film of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles.

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Gil Goldstein

Gil Goldstein (born 1950) is an American jazz pianist and synthesizer player who started on the accordion.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Grady Tate

Grady Bernard Tate (January 14, 1932 – October 8, 2017) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz drummer and singer with a distinctive baritone voice.

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Graham Haynes

Graham Haynes (born September 16, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American cornetist, trumpeter and composer.

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Hank Jones

Henry "Hank" Jones Jr. (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer.

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Harold Vick

Harold Vick (April 3, 1936 – November 13, 1987) was an American hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Inner City Records

Inner City Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Irv Kratka in 1976 in New York City.

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Institute of Jazz Studies

The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) is the largest and most comprehensive library and archives of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world.

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It's Magic (album)

It's Magic is the third album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1958 for the Riverside label.

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It's Time (Max Roach album)

It's Time is a 1962 album by jazz drummer Max Roach, released on Impulse! Records which also features trumpeter Richard Williams, tenor-saxophonist Clifford Jordan, trombonist Julian Priester, pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Art Davis, and a vocal choir conducted by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson.

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Ivan Dixon

Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III (April 6, 1931 – March 16, 2008) was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for his role in the 1967 television film The Final War of Olly Winter, and for directing many episodes of television series.

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J. J. Johnson

James Louis "J.

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Jackie McLean

John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''Down Beat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death.

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James Spaulding

James Ralph Spaulding Jr. (born July 30, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist and flutist.

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James Weidman

James Edward Weidman, Jr. (born July 23, 1953 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American jazz pianist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jerry González

Jerry González (born June 5, 1949) is an American bandleader, trumpeter and percussionist of Puerto Rican descent.

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Joe Lovano

Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born December 29, 1952)"Joe Lovano." Contemporary Musicians.

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Julien Lourau

Julien Lourau (born 3/2/1970) is a French jazz saxophonist.

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Kenny Barron

Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943) is an American jazz pianist, who has appeared on hundreds of recordings as leader and sideman and is considered one of the most influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.

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Larry Campbell (musician)

Larry Campbell (born February 21, 1955, New York City) is an American multi-instrumentalist, who plays many stringed instruments (including guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, and violin) in genres including country, folk, blues, and rock.

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Liberty Records

Liberty Records was a United States-based record label.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marc Cary

Marc Cary (born January 29, 1967) is a post bop jazz pianist based out of New York City.

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Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired Tuesdays at 10:00–11:00 p.m. (EST) on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976.

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Marge Records

Marge Records was a jazz record label created in France in 1973 by Gérard Terronès as a continuation of Futura Records.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer.

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Marty Paich

Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor.

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Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.

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Michael Roemer

Michael Roemer (born January 1, 1928) is a film director, producer and writer.

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Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series, created and initially produced by Bruce Geller, chronicling the exploits of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF).

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Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 musical drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed.

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Moon Faced and Starry Eyed

Moon Faced and Starry Eyed is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach, featuring vocalist Abbey Lincoln on two tracks, recorded in 1959 and released on the Mercury label.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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NEA Jazz Masters

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), every year honors up to seven jazz musicians with Jazz Master Awards.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicholas Payton

Nicholas Payton (born September 26, 1973) is an American trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist.

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Nothing But a Man

Nothing But a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln, and directed by Michael Roemer, who also co-wrote the film with Robert M. Young.

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Oliver Lake

Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet.

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Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Riverside Records

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label.

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Rodney Kendrick

Rodney Kendrick (born April 30, 1960) is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, and producer.

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Roy Hargrove

Roy Anthony Hargrove (born October 16, 1969) is an American jazz trumpeter.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.

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Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Stage name

A stage name is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers, such as actors, comedians, singers and musicians.

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Stanley Turrentine

Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Steve Coleman

Steve Coleman (born September 20, 1956) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album)

Straight Ahead is an album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the Candid label.

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Sweet Basil Jazz Club

Sweet Basil was a jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village.

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Tarik Shah

Tarik Shah (born January 24, 1963) is an American modern jazz bassist and martial arts expert who has been imprisoned since 2005 for conspiring to provide aid to the terrorist organization al-Qaeda.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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That's Him!

That's Him! is the second album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.

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The Girl Can't Help It

The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 musical comedy starring Jayne Mansfield in the titular role, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Jones, and Julie London.

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The Maestro (Cedar Walton album)

The Maestro is an album by pianist Cedar Walton with guest vocalist Abbey Lincoln recorded in 1980 and released on the Muse label.

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The Name of the Game (TV series)

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack, airing from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes each.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Staple Singers

The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul and R&B singing group.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Victor Lewis

Victor Lewis (born May 20, 1950, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American jazz drummer.

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We Insist!

We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released on Candid Records in 1960.

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WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 19), is a PBS member television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Yoron Israel

Yoron Dael Israel (born November 24, 1963, Chicago) is an American jazz drummer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Lincoln

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