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Lou Bennett
Lou Bennett: Enfin, 1963
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Lou Bennett, one of finest organists of the 1960s, is little known among many jazz fans today, largely because he rarely played in the U.S. after 1960. Bennett was a bop pianist who began his career leading a piano trio in Baltimore in the late 1940s, switching to organ after hearing Jimmy Smith in 1956. He toured the U.S. on organ between 1957 and 1959 before moving to Paris in 1960. Unlike many jazz expatriates who moved to Europe and ...
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