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Noah's Work Log

 * September 29th I copied and pasted parts of Pierre Perrone's article about Simon Jeffes.
 * October 5th I spent more time looking for different articles.
 * October 6th I found out that I needed more sources that talked more about Simon Jeffes life.

Heather's Comments
10/2- Noah! Smart! You used the obituary already posted to the Wikipedia article and mined it for more stuff. You have your work cut out for you because you can't use large block quotes on Wikipedia, so all of this text from Perrone needs to be paraphrased in your own words. (Is it already or are these quotes?). Try to find one more source that talks about his life to add if you can. Try the butte.edu/library and also connect with Rachel, our librarian, through "inbox" in Canvas. Good luck!

Proposed changes to "Simon Jeffes"

 * Jeffes was born in Sussex in 1949. He spent a few years of his childhood in Canada before returning to England with his family and attending school in Devon. At the end of the Sixties, he studied classical guitar at the Royal Academy with Julian Byzantine and Gilbert Biberian and occasionally played in avant-garde ensembles like the Omega Players.(Pierre Perrone)
 * He was already dabbling in experimental composition, but his musical outlook completely changed within a couple of years. In 1972, Jeffes travelled to Japan and was much taken by the minimalist style of the local players. On his return, he went on holiday in the south of France and suffered from a bout of food poisoning. As the story goes, he lay down on the beach to rest and a poem came to him as he drifted in and out of his daydreaming state. "I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe. I will tell you things at random," was what Jeffes had scribbled. (Perrone)
 * The idea of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra began to germinate in his head.Further seeds were added the following year by a friend who gave Jeffes a tape of African recordings. Fifteen years before Andy Kershaw, Charlie Gillett and Paul Simon championed the cause of world music, Jeffes found himself "responding more to an mbira player from Zimbabwe than to avant-garde figures like Stockhausen."I want to make music for people capable of enjoying Wilson Pickett, Beethoven, the Rolling Stones, choral music from West Africa, Bach, Stravinsky, Irish bagpipe music and even Abba on the odd occasion," he said. In the mid-Seventies, Brian Eno was formulating his ambient music theories and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra's first album (simply entitled Music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra) emerged on Eno's Obscure label in 1976. However, like Eno (who went on to greater success with David Bowie and U2), Jeffes was ahead of his time.(Perrone)
 * References: Obituary: Simon Jeffes by Pierre Perrone https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-simon-jeffes-1289435.html