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Charlie Ventura: Adventure With Charlie

Charlie Ventura: Adventure With Charlie

The last time I posted about tenor saxophonist Charlie Ventura was in 2013. As I wrote ruefully back then, the 78-era soloist seems to have disappeared completely from view in today's jazz world, his recordings and contribution sadly forgotten. Throughout Ventura's career, his solos were uniformly high energy, earthy and flawless. He was a swing-era blower ...

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Adventure With Charlie

Label: Jasmine
Released: 1957
Track listing: This Can't Be Love; Give Me the Simple Life; Laura, Ventura's Pocahontas; Sweet Georgia Brown; Mad About the Boy; Blues in the Closet; Ventura's In Oblivion; If I Had You; Take the A Train; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; Liza.


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