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THE NATIONAL JAZZ FEDERATION
If you're at all keen on jazz—whether you want to play it or to listen to it—you'll become an Associate Member of the National Jazz Federation. This will cost you five shillings a year, and will bring you advantages worth many times that small sum.
The National Jazz Federation lives at Alderman House, 37 Soho Square, London, W.l. (Telephone: GERrard 8923). If you write to the Secretary, he will tell you how to become an Associate Member (and I'm sure he will appreciate it if you print your name and address in capitals, and enclose a stamp for reply).
Associate Members receive a monthly copy of the Federation's Jazz News. They can send all their queries on jazz to the Federation and (within reason) have them answered free of charge. They are entitled to a substantial reduction on the price of books about jazz, and on subscriptions to jazz papers and magazines (this alone can save you more than the membership fee).
The Federation, a non-profit-making body limited by guarantee, helps in the formation of jazz clubs all over the country, and promotes concerts by top-line jazz artists from all over the world. Up to 1956, these
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