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Jazz West: Lighthouse All-Stars
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
To fully understand the romance of West Coast jazz of the early 1950s, you have to walk the beaches of Hermosa, Huntington, Leguna and Redondo in California. I did that in the 1980s with a Walkman. As I walked the sand in tan Converse sneakers, I listened to home-made cassettes of Shorty Rogers, Shelly Manne, Stan Kenton and Johnny Richards, among others. Only then did I realize how much Pacific Ocean in the music along with the air, the salty ...
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Video: Lighthouse All-Stars, 1958
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The Lighthouse All-Stars was the house band at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., that was formed in the early 1950s by bassist Howard Rumsey, who managed the club. Many top musicians who relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1950s played in the band while “working off their card"—an expression that meant waiting the required six months before qualifying for membership in the local musicians union. The Lighthouse All-Stars made many recordings and were responsible for solidifying what would ...
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