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People living anywhere apart from southeastern Pennsylvania, NJ, or NY in the ’70s missed the Catalyst encounter. A four-man jazz combo from Philadelphia, the music group played a mixture of avant-garde, modern bop, spirit, and funk in the dawn from the big fusion explosion. The initial members had been Eddie …

A fiery and frequently intense tenor saxophonist, Odean Pope was a significant member of Potential Roach’s quartet from 1979. Pope was raised in Philadelphia, had taken some essential musical lessons from Ray Bryant, and acquired short organizations with organist Jimmy McGriff and Artwork Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He 1st started teaming …