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Fusion, modern and post-bop bassist. Proved helpful often with Marian McPartland and Mary Lou Williams in the ’70s.
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Among the better-kept secrets among Brazil’s bossa nova pioneers, Manfredo Fest’s reputation and profile rose dramatically within the 1990s. Legally blind since delivery, Fest’s most significant early impact was George Shearing, but he created his own strategy aside from Shearing as well as other Brazilian jazz pianists, unleashing relentlessly moving …
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