Jazz Articles about Herb Gauleiter

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Herb Gauleiter Octet: North Coastin'

by Nic Jones
April 1, 2003

Baritone sax man Gauleiter has combined his love for the sounds coming out of '50s Los Angeles with his devotion to the teachings of Winkler Parvenu, the mystic and conman. His acute lack of directional sense led him to produce an album which pays homage to the Parvenuties, a sect he joined in the mid-1970s and which since then has transformed his outlook on life to such a degree that he now appears to regard any band numbering between five ...