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Jazz Life On The Road: Part 1

By Monk Rowe | Jazz Backstory
February 21, 2023
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Musicians need gigs and they need to go anywhere they can find them. The "romance" of the road becomes realistic with tales from

Bucky Pizzarelli

guitar
1926 - 2020

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Kenny Davern

clarinet
1935 - 2006

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Carmen Leggio

b.1927

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Jimmy Lewis

b.1918

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