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Lou Levy

An excellent bop-based pianist who spent some time working with a many top jazz artists, Lou Levy started about piano when he was 12. He used Georgie Auld (1947), Sarah Vaughan, Chubby Jackson (1947-1948), Boyd Raeburn, Woody Herman’s Second Herd (1949-1950), Tommy Dorsey (1950), Auld once again, and Turn Phillips. …

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Conte Candoli

Best-known because the trumpet section leader in Doc Severinsen’s Tonight Show Band, Conte Candoli was an excellent all-around jazz stylist many at home within the worlds of bop and Western Coast awesome jazz. Younger by four years than his likewise accomplished trumpet-playing sibling Pete, Conte was created Secondo Candoli in …

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