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Victor Bailey Band in Jim Thorpe (PA) on September 26

Source: Michael Ricci
September 7, 2009

For Jazz Bassist Victor Bailey, It Just Comes Naturally Though Philadelphia native Victor Bailey is one of the greatest jazz bassists ever, its not easy to sum up his music. Firmly established in the long lineage of extraordinary Philly bassists such as Tyrone Browne, Alphonso Johnson, Stanley Clarke, and Jaco Pastorius, one might call Bailey's music jazz fusion or post-funk-jazz, but while his sound may be hard to categorize, its easy to say that he was born to play. Bailey's ...
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Billy Cobham's Spectrum Band at the Opera House in Jim Thorpe on Labor Day

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2008

35 years after Billy Cobham first formed the Spectrum Band, he returns to the United States for a brief tour beginning at the Opera House in Jim Thorpe, PA on Monday, September 1st. Long known for his work with Miles Davis and as the locomotive force behind the jazz fusion supergroup, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Billy Cobham's other stops will be New York City, Washington DC, and Detroit.

He is widely considered one of the greatest drummers in the world. He ...
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