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Instrument: Bass
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by Dan McClenaghan
Considering music with origins in California's San Joaquin Valley, the names most likely to come to mind are Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, an American music that adopted the name the Bakersfield Sound." But up the road apiece in Fresno--about a hundred miles north of Bakersfield on Highway 99--a different style of American music, jazz, is sprouting, at the hands of saxophonist and Fresno native Tim Shaghoian. Gentle Beacons is Shaghoian's debut, a well-crafted work of modern jazz ...
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