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A sharp, powerful, and swinging drummer, Alvin Queen hasn’t recorded normally as his abilities merit, but what he’s completed is consistently engaging and demanding. Queen caused George Benson and Stanley Turrentine, after that traveled to European countries with Charles Tolliver’s quartet. Through the ’70s, he caused the group Music Inc., …

A drummer whose function as a head is more pronounced after years being a side guy, McCraven projects into mainstream and avant-garde.