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Dysfunctional: Life Journeys of a Second Generation Jazz Musician
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Dysfunctional is the curious title of a gritty and revealing autobiography written figurative minutes before the passing on to ancestry of a Kansas City treasure, master saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen. Subtitled “life journeys of a second generation jazz musician," that's precisely where Alaadeen places himself in the jazz lineage—among the second generation of musicians who came up through the world of music, likely because he was among the generation that came up at the tail end of the so-called swing era ...
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