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Steve Flora
Steve Flora was born in Indianapolis, attended Berklee College of Music and graduated from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He studied privately with Ray Brown, Milt Hinton, and François Rabbath. He has performed with Jazz greats Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Sherman Irby, Dave Liebman, Vincent Herring, Rick Margitza, Scott Hamilton, Frank Lowe, Richie Cole, Tom Scott, Ira Sullivan, Peter Erskine, Wynton Marsalis, and Eddie Harris. Steve has been employed to accompany many celebrities including John Fogerty, Steven Tyler, Carole King, Andrea Bocelli, Queen Latifah, Gloria Estefan, Marlena Shaw, Ben Vereen, Hugh Jackman, Clint Holmes, Mark Murphy, Amy Grant, and Don Rickles. You can currently find Steve performing nightly at Delilah at the Wynn in Las Vegas.
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Isrea Butler: Congo Lament
by Jack Bowers
After decades gigging as a sideman with some of the USA's most renowned big bands, trombonist Isrea Butler has finally recorded his debut album, Congo Lament, inviting tenor saxophonist and celebrated Count Basie Orchestra soloist Doug Lawrence to share the front line in his quintet. All but one of the album's seven numbers was introduced on tenor 0Ike Quebec's album Easy Living, recorded in 1962, which featured one of Florida-born Butler's musical exemplars, trombonist Bennie Green. The ...
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by Richard J Salvucci
Well, this is the kind of recording that will start a war over who hears whom and what, all that jazz police kind of thing. Worry not. Whether you think this is a bop recording, rooted in swing, with more than a little of Al Grey's plunger mute on the trombone, or something entirely different, the progeny of Ike Quebec, it really does not matter. Anyone who, say, puts him or herself to rest with the music from Robert Altman's ...
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Steve Flora
Instrument: Bass, acoustic
Born: October 31, 1970
