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Chuck Clark: Little Big Band

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2002

It’s hard to determine the exact size of tenor saxophonist Chuck Clark’s Little Big Band, as the booklet contains two lists, one for “musicians” (ten names, which would make it a tentet), another for “additional musicians” (five names but with no information about the number of selections on which any or all of them play). Clark, who composed six of the nine numbers and solos on three (Miles Davis / Bill Evans’ “Blue in Green,” his own “Footprints in the ...