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We're back with a bad chest cold and a milestone trip around the sun for another formative pillar of the music of our epoch.
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Starting in the band of Dizzy Gillespie in the early 1960s, he's blazed quite a path in the 60 (!) years since.
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Perhaps most acclaimed for his series of duets with Stan Getz in the late 1980s, AFAIK he is still out there and playing as he turns 80 today.
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We'll tribute Kenny Barron -- piano Maestro of our lifetimes -- with two sweet radio segments from the 1980s: one solo and one with an all-star trio.
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Kenny Barron
broadcasts, 1981-84
01 Misterioso
02 The Star-Crossed Lovers
03 Bud-Like
04 Autumn Leaves
05 There Is No Greater Love
06 FM outro
Total time: 58:28
Tracks 01-03: Kenny Barron - solo piano
Bibliothèque Nationale, Pianissimo Series Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, Canada 6.29.1984 master FM cassette capture of a CBOF broadcast
Tracks 04-06: Kenny Barron - piano Eddie Gomez - bass Al Foster - drums
Paulson's NYC, NY 2.8.1981 master FM cassette capture of an NPR "Jazz Alive!" segment
330 MB FLAC/direct link
330 MB FLAC/direct link
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I'll be back around after this cold is gone and I'm not coughing the contents of my lungs all over the keyboard.