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Deodato: In Concert - Live At Felt Forum
by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
Since his days at Verve Records in the early 1960s, when he produced seminal bossa nova albums by such artists as Luiz Bonfá, Walter Wanderley, Laurindo Almeida, Bola Sete, {{Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto, until his activities during the A&M/CTI era (when also signed Milton Nascimento and Tamba 4) and at the Greenestreet label (which thrived for a scant ten months in 1984, but gave him enough time to launch trumpeter Claudio Roditi's solo career), Creed Taylor ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Happy Birthday, Maestro Ellington!. A perfect time for Joe Temperley’s Naxos Jazz debut: The 100th birthday of the grand maestro himself, Edward Kennedy Ellington. Temperley was an important figure in the late bands of the Duke having replaced the venerable Harry Carney after his 42 years (the longest of any single Duke band member) 1974. Temperley added the soprano sax to the arsenal of baritone and bass clarinet, two of the important underpinnings to the super Ellington sound. Double Duke ...
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