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Jim Riley: & Some Colorado Friends
by Jack Bowers
Although he was unaware of it before I wrote to ask for a copy of this CD, which I’d seen reviewed in Cadence magazine, saxophonist Jim Riley and I go back a long way together — to the early ’50s when I was a teen–age Jazz fan in Washingon, DC, and Jim was the youngest member of THE Orchestra, a spectacular big band comprised of DC–area musicians and fronted by Willis Conover, who later earned fame as the announcer for ...
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