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Album Review: Sounds of Synanon by Joe Pass
Synanon songs: music that healed its makers, from CHRIS SEARLE on Jazz

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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