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Joe Pass
Sounds of Synanon
(American Jazz Classics 99100)
THE post-war years of jazz were set alight by the explosion of bop: the astonishing new sounds of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach and a host of disciples and imitators.
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