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Dave Rough was popular (and infamous) for a number of things. He was a refined and flexible drummer who hated to single. He was an intellectual whose profession was frequently rather aimless. Hard was also a painfully slim alcoholic whose taking in got him into problems frequently and shortened his …

A fantastic hard bop tenor saxophonist most influenced simply by Dexter Gordon, David Schnitter’s rise in the jazz world in the 1970s preceded the “youthful lions”; regrettably, he has managed a lower profile because the early ’80s. After beginning on clarinet, Schnitter completely turned to tenor when he was 15. …

Alvin Darling continues to be writing and saving traditional and modern gospel because the 1970s. A Newark-born NJ indigenous and veteran pastor, he released his first recordings, including 1978’s ALTOGETHER for just one, on the tiny Inspirational Noises label, and finally moved to brands with a larger reach, including Savoy …