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Article: Jazz West Coast

The Case for Dave Pell: The Octets and Beyond

by Steven Cerra
October 14, 2025

Of the major books on West Coast Jazz, few have much to say about the Dave Pell Octet, a group that was active on a regular basis from 1952--1964 and intermittently thereafter until Dave's death in 2017. Ted Gioia gives Dave's group a casual mention in the following statement from his West Coast ...

News: Recording

Backgrounder: Dave Pell Octet 'Plays Rodgers & Hart'

October 21, 2022

I received so much email yesterday about the octet format that I figured I'd end the week with a Backgrounder by the Dave Pell Octet. The octet's arrangements in the 1950s were designed to give the eight musicians a West Coast big band sound—a miniaturized Les Brown Orchestra if you will. Prior to Dave Pell, there ...

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