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Pete Brown

Through the late ’30s, alto saxophonist Pete Brown was a busy sideman who sounded a little like Benny Carter, Chu Berry, or Jimmie Lunceford’s star altoist, Willie Smith. Through the entire 1940s he swung harder, sharpened his assault, and coarsened his shade to enter Ben Webster’s gutbucket range, flirting with …

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