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“Danny is full of surprises and into every kind of bag. I think he's going to reach a whole new audience with this one and i want to wish him a lot of luck."
- Les Paul

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“Genius is an overworked word in this era of thunderous hyperbolic press agency. Still, when one considers Arthur Tatum, there is no other proper descriptive adjective for referring to his talents. I have purposely pluralized them, for Tatum possessed...

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"The Curtis Counce quintet is one of the great neglected jazz bands of the 1950s. The reasons for this neglect are difficult to pinpoint.”
- Ted Gioia, West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz In California [New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p.318]....

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Through a mutual friend, I was introduced to bassist James Lacefield during the early 1980s.
Although some of the early giants and creators of Jazz were still active, by and large, the 1980s was a time for new blood, electronic instruments and lots of fusion....