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Among the finest guitarists to emerge following the loss of life of Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel was a trusted bop soloist throughout his profession. He used a huge music group fronted by Chico Marx (1943), was luckily enough to surface in the traditional jazz brief Jammin’ the Blues (1944), and …

Hampton Hawes was among the finest jazz pianists from the 1950s, a fixture around the Los Angeles picture who also brought his own interpretations towards the dominant Bud Powell design. In the middle- to past due ’40s, he used Sonny Criss, Dexter Gordon, and Wardell Grey, amongst others on Central …