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Through the late ’30s, alto saxophonist Pete Brown was a busy sideman who sounded a little like Benny Carter, Chu Berry, or Jimmie Lunceford’s star altoist, Willie Smith. Through the entire 1940s he swung harder, sharpened his assault, and coarsened his shade to enter Ben Webster’s gutbucket range, flirting with …
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Jo Jones shifted the timekeeping part from the drums through the bass drum towards the hi-hat cymbal, greatly influencing all golf swing and bop drummers. Friend Affluent and Louie Bellson had been just two music artists who discovered from his light but forceful playing, as Jones swung the Count number …
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