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Jamil Sheriff’s Five Gold Rings – ‘Red Kite’ – London Jazz News

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Jamil Sheriff’s Five Gold Rings – Red Kite
(Lamplight Social Records LSRDL28. Album review by Julian Maynard-Smith)

If Leeds Conservatoire wanted an aural prospectus showcasing their teaching talents, they couldn’t do much better than Red Kite, an album on which all members of the quintet are not only performers of long standing but also lecturers at the conservatoire. Also, the quintet’s leader, pianist Jamil Sheriff, is the conservatoire’s head of school of music and education, and until recently (2014–2023) was the jazz program leader. Joining him are Jim Corry (alto saxophone), Richard Iles (flugelhorn), Sam Quintana (double bass)

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Saturn’s rings may be no more than 400 million years old

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Saturn’s rings might have formed while trilobites scuttled about on Earth. Space dust has been accumulating on the icy halos for no more than 400 million years, researchers report in the May 12 Science Advances.

The 4.5-billion-year-old planet appears to have acquired its iconic ornamentation relatively recently, says physicist Sascha Kempf of the University of Colorado Boulder. “We’re quite lucky to see a ring in the first place.”

The rings of Saturn are made of countless icy particles, which become covered with dust as tiny meteoroids strike them. These dustings darken the rings’ complexion, like mud sullies snow on

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