Saxy sound of the flyover ; Jazz man Soweto Kinch tells Terry Grimley about bringing music to Birmingham's heart

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When Soweto Kinch first came up with the idea of putting on a community festival under the Hockley flyover, it's fair to say that not everyone got it.

In fact, the project was stuck in limbo for a long time as the Birmingham jazz and hip hop star was batted backwards and forwards between different city council departments.

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Saxy sound of the flyover ; Jazz man Soweto Kinch tells Terry Grimley about bringing music to Birmingham's heart

But eventually the bureaucratic inertia was overcome and the event duly took place on May 31 last year, with 1,500 people choosing to spend all or part of the day in a bleak 1960s traffi...

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