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Dick Twardzik Trio: Complete Recordings

Read "Complete Recordings" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
May 9, 2007

Dick Twardzik is one of the great “What Ifs in jazz. After a promising start backing the likes of saxophonists Charlie Parker and Serge Chaloff, showing a penchant for inventive originals and ingenious reworking of melodies, he succumbed to a drug overdose at the age of 24 while on tour with Chet Baker. He is one of several musicians who had yet to reach his full potential before succumbing to a drug addiction, and surely would have been recognized as ...

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