“Moving [to Majorca] saved my life. It gave me a sanctuary, away from everything. It’s such a healing place. I started to get my life back together, and my wits back.”

An affectionate portrait of “Scotland’s first lady of jazz” Carol Kidd from Alison Kerr in the Glasgow Herald, seen above on a bare-footed pilgrimage back to Glasgow in 2006.

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