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A fiery drummer and a masterful accompanist, Philly Joe Jones found fame as an integral member using the 1st classic Kilometers Davis Quintet. After offering in the Military, he shifted to NY in 1947, became the home drummer at Cafe Culture and used a who’s who of bop (including Charlie …

Longtime Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy (given birth to Jenó Blau) developed what had become referred to as the “Philadelphia Audio.” (He groused that it ought to be known as the “Ormandy Audio,” despite the fact that its fundamentals got already been set up during Leopold Stokowski’s lengthy tenure using …