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Owner of a primary, lightly swinging, somewhat plain-wrapped firmness that fit ideal along with the Blue Notice label’s hard bop ethos from the 1960s, Blue Mitchell is commonly overlooked today perhaps because he hardly ever really stood out vividly from your crowd, in spite of his undeniable skill. After learning …

Harold Land can be an underrated tenor saxophonist whose shade has hardened as time passes and whose improvising design following the 1960s became influenced by (however, not a duplicate of) John Coltrane. He was raised in NORTH PARK and began playing tenor when he was 16. After functioning locally and …