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Tuba Fats
Tuba Fats / Linda Young: After You've Gone
by Henry Smith
Peter Nissen's liner notes indicate that if you want to find real New Orleans jazz all you've got to do is go to Jackson Square, ask for 'Tuba Fats,' and he will help you. Well Nissen's right, but Anthony Tuba Fats" Lacen was far more than a man who would merely help you on your quest to find real New Orleans jazz; he was real New Orleans jazz. Indeed, the local nonchalance of the liner notes aptly sums up the ...
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