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Jazz was often echoing around the family home in south London when Duval Timothy, 35, was a child. His father played saxophone and guitar, and both parents, who were artists and architects, exposed him to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. He became hooked on playing the piano after a schoolfriend “twisted my arm” into backing her on an Amy Winehouse track at a talent…