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Jimmy Cleveland

Among the finest trombonists to emerge through the 1950s, Jimmy Cleveland continues to be overlooked since moving to LA in the later ’60s. He began on trombone when he was 16, and his initial important work was with Lionel Hampton (1950-1953). After Hampton’s Western european tour of 1953, Cleveland became …

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