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Google News: 2013 NEA Jazz Master Lou Donaldson And His Quartet at the Jazz Standard
[Jazz Police (blog)] - Donaldson was also instrumental in getting many legendary musicians their debut sessions with Blue Note, including Grant Green, Blue Mitchell, John Patton, Ray Barretto, Curtis Fuller, and Donald Byrd. Donaldson is the recipient of an honorary
Google News: James Carter Organ Trio at the Dakota, July 29th
[Jazz Police (blog)] - Soon his parents offered him drum lessons. As a youth he formed the band Leonard King and the Soul Messengers, which performed for ten years. His resume includes work with Donald Byrd, Paquito D'Rivera, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Griffin, David
Jazz: Barry Harris at Village Vanguard
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[New York Daily News] - A roll call of major improvisers such as Donald Byrd, Joe Henderson, Buddy DeFranco, James Jamerson (a major Motown bassist) and Paul Chambers learned from Harris. He says pianists Walter Davis and Walter Bishop were hip to him. John Coltrane too.
Don Was highlights jazz in annual Concert of Colors revue
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[Detroit Free Press] - But Was, who grew up in Oak Park, has always had a deep connection with jazz, and there is poetry in his assuming the helm at Blue Note, whose storied catalog from the '50s and '60s overflows with Detroit jazz greats -- Thad Jones, Donald Byrd, Paul
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