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Welcome music lovers to this week's

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edition of In the Groove Jazz

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and Beyond. My name's Ken Laster.

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We're going to start today's show

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featuring a fine young guitarist. His

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name is Andrew Renfro. I

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knew Andrew from his days in

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Hartford, Connecticut, studying at

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the University of Hartford, Jackie

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McLean Institute for Jazz. He's

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got a brand new EP

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out entitled Big Country, a

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compilation of singles that he

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had recently released along with

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Andrew Renfro on guitar. We've

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got Braxton Cook on saxophone,

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Taper Gable on piano, Joshua

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Crumbly on bass, and Jonathan Pinson

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on drums. So let's

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listen now to Big Country

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by Andrew Renfro. Big

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Country by Andrew

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Renfro. He.

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He. Ah

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ha ha

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ha ha.

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He he.

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He he. He.

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You You

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You You

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he he

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he He.

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Name. He.

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No. oh

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A beautiful sound that is Joel

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Ross on Fiberphones and his

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brand new album on Blue

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Note Records is New Blues.

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Also features Emmanuel Lokens

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on alto saxophone, Jeremy

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Caron on piano, Kanoa

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Mendenhall on bass and

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Jeremy Dutton on drums.

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You heard the title track New

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Blues and we started out that

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set with Andrew Renfro, great guitarist

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from his EP that was just

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released entitled Big Country. We heard

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the title track from that one

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as well. Let's

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continue on now with Desron

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Douglas and Brandi Younger,

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another album with

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Roots in the University of

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Hartford's Jackie McQueen Institute for

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Jazz where they both attended.

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This is a great album. It's

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a duet format. We're

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used to hearing Harpist

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Brandi Younger in a

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more largely produced sound

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with intricate arrangements and

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fusing hip hop and rhythm

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and blues and jazz. This

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is a more simple format. It

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was recorded during the pandemic, taking

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excerpts from a great

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streaming series they did when

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everyone was on lockdown and

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they put this together to

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create this album entitled Force

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Major. Now we're going

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to hear the Kate Bush composition.

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This woman's work. This is Desron

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Douglas on bass and Brandi Younger

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on Harp. Thank

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you. are

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won room

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room room

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room You

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You You

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I will

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acquire something

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you do

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now. I

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will acquire

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something you

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do now. I

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will acquire

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something

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you do

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now. I

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will acquire something you

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do now. I

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will acquire something you do now. I

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will acquire something you do now. Maybe

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I can find it Follow

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me What

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I want, I do

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this and I do this

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I will know

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in my heart I

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will know in my heart

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to be In

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my heart to

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be In

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my heart to be What

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I want, I do

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this Don't

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you know that I'm just

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a little girl That's

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why I'm

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following you Oh,

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I'm on my own

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I will be

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in this old

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island alone Never

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knowing my life back

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in my bed My

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head is in my bed time

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to mistake independent

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's missing

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into majesty

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me vocalist

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samara joy from her album

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linger a while we heard

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one of my favorite tunes

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misty and what

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an unbelievably mature sound at

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the age of 24 i

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don't think i've heard anyone with those types

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of vocal chops since

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saravan i really

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love her work samara joy before

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that we heard from

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bassist desron douglas and

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harpist brandy younger from

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their album force majeure

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an album that was recorded in

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their harlem apartment during

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the pandemic lockdown we heard

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this woman's work we're

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going to continue on now with music

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from back in the 50s we're

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going to start off with shelly

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man and his men recorded in

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1959 the

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name of the album is at the

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black hawk one and it

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features shelly man on drums

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joe gordon on trumpet richie

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kamuka on tenor saxophone victor

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feldman on and

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Monte Budwig on bass. We're

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going to hear our delight

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a tad Dameron composition. We're

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going to hear our delight a tad Dameron on

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bass. We're going to hear our delight a Little

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bit. He

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added. Added

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an unedited. New

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Minute. Hey.

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Hey hey man at. Least.

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He. He.

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eighty Is

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that like?!

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You You

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You You

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Thank you. Thank

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you. Thank

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you. Thank

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you. The

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a a

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a a

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a a a

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a a

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A. He.

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Oh. Oh.

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Oh. Man.

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oh man You

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Taking you back to the 1950s

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and early 60s on that last set,

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the last thing you heard, West Montgomery

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from the incredible jazz guitar of West

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Montgomery, we heard 4 on

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6, recorded back in

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April of 1960, featuring

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West Montgomery on electric guitar,

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Tommy Flanagan on piano, Percy

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Heath on bass, and

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Albert Heath on drums. Before that,

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we heard some early Dave

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Brubeck quartet from the album

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Red Hot and Cool recorded

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live in 1955. We

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heard The Duke written

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for Duke Ellington. And

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that is an early version

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of the Dave Brubeck quartet,

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Dave Brubeck on piano, Paul

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Desmond on alto sax, Bob

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Ellington. dates on bass and

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Joe Dodge on drums. And

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we started things out with

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Shelly Man and His Men

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at the Black Hawk number one. Recorded

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in San Francisco in

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1959, that's Shelly Man on drums,

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Joe Gordon on trumpet, Richie Kamuka

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on tenor saxophone, Victor Feldman on

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piano, and Monty Budwig on bass.

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And that brings us near the close

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of this week's In the Groove Jazz

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and Beyond. My name is Ken Laster.

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We are a radio show on WWUH

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91.3 FM

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in Hartford, Connecticut. You can also

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hear us on

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So check me out over there. I

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on jaztadon.com. We're going to

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finish things out with

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some classic John Coltrane from

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the album Blue Train, released

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in 1958 with

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a sex pet of

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John Coltrane on tenor sax,

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Lee Morgan on trumpet, Curtis

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Fuller on trombone, Kenny Drew

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on piano, Paul Chambers on

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bass, and Philly Joe

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Jones on drums. We're

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going to hear the John

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Coltrane composition, Moments Notice. And

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that'll do it for today's show. Thank

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you for listening, folks. See you next

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week on In the Groove Jazz and

49:41

Beyond. I.

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He. Me:

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He. oh

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I'm not alone, I'm alone,

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I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm

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alone. music

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music music

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music music

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Music. Oh.

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Oh. oh

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