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Charlie Byrd [image: Inline image 2] Desafinado with Stan Getz 1962 http://youtu.be/991uASejkY8 Desafinado - Long version Stereo http://youtu.be/L7lmMNweUVU Byrd played finger-style on a classical guitar. One time there was a guy up on the roof of a building getting ready to jump off and commit

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Herbie Mann [image: Inline image 2] Comin' Home Baby - Live at the Village Gate, 1961 http://youtu.be/jiCV4Xna684 Wailing Dervishes http://youtu.be/M0mcII-mE4g [image: Inline image 1] Live at the Village Gate: Herbie Mann - Flute Hagood Hardy - Vibraharp Ahmad Abdul-Malik , Ben Tucker - Bass

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Charles Mingus Jr. [image: Inline image 1] Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul - Track One, from the album "Mingus Ah Um" - Vinyl http://www.youtube.com/ [image: Inline image 2] Sue's Changes - Live At Mont

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Good point, but I don't get into the personalities of any of these guys very much. Lots of jazz players were really screwed up on drugs and some had questionable ethical behavior as well. Most of the time I just listen to the music and enjoy. For me, it's not about the personalities, it's all a

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Richard, Stan Gets was a great tenor sax player. His solos were exquisite and creative. But one of his friends called him a "nice bunch of guys", apparently referring to his unpredictable personality quirks.

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Stan Getz [image: Inline image 2] One of the all-time great tenor saxophonists. Getz performed bebop, cool jazz and third stream, but is perhaps best known for popularizing bossa nova, as in the worldwide hit single "The Girl from Ipanema" (1964). The Girl From Ipanema 1964 - Verve (long version

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This CD, Conga Blue, by Pancho Sanchez is just amazing. I've got my old stereo system set up out back on the patio and I play it on weekends, real loud, so the whole neighborhood can hear it. From what I've read, Sanchez is a protege of Cal Tjader, another of my favorites. Check out these selection

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Richard, Poncho is my favorite conga player. I've learned to play the mambo tumbao from his You Tube presentation.

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Paul Desmond [image: Inline image 2] Desmond Blue 1961 http://youtu.be/n-y8AgX4fVY Paul Desmond was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five". Desmond re

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk [image: Inline image 1] We Free Kings - 1961 http://youtu.be/Mk0mSclnUQQ Roland Kirk - Tenor Saxophone, Manzello, Flute, Stritch Hank Jones - Piano Wendell Marshall - Bass Charlie Persip - Drums Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a blind American jazz improvisation, multi-instrumentali

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Pancho Sanchez [image: Inline image 1] Besame Mamá - from the album Conga Blue 1995 http://youtu.be/RY09gprbU20 Poncho Sanchez, one of the top American percussionists of our time, is a Mexican-American conguero (conga player), Latin jazz band leader, and salsa singer. Sanchez and his ensemble w

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Cal Tjader [image: Inline image 2] Several Shades of Jade - The Fakir 1963 http://youtu.be/8AU_91XRstM Produced by Lalo Shifren Cal Tjader - vibes Jimmy Raney - guitar Dick Hyman - organ Lonnie Hewitt - piano Bob Bushnell - fretless electric bass Johnny Rae - drums. Cal Tjader grew up in the S

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Thelonious Monk [image: Inline image 1] Monk's Dream 1963 http://youtu.be/FxailNkhpXs Thelonious Monk - piano Charlie Rouse - tenor sax John Ore - bass Frankie Dunlop - drums According to Kelley, Thelonious Monk was born December 28, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Monk is considered one

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Miles Davis [image: Inline image 1] Sketches of Spain, Live http://youtu.be/6CZFnyXwlV4 Miles Davis is one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Sketches of Spain is an exemplary recording of Third Stream, a musical fusion of jazz, European classical, and world music. The album

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FYI, for a TM link to this, Brubeck's first group had Bill Smith on clarinet. Bill joined the staff at the University of Washingtion when I went there. I played on some avant garde projects he did. A few years later he showed up at TM residence course with Paul Horn that I attended. On 12/1

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Dave Brubeck [image: Inline image 1] Dave Brubeck - Take Five ( Original Video) http://youtu.be/PHdU5sHigYQ "Take Five" is a jazz piece composed by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out. It is the best-selling jazz single of all time. It was first p