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Robert C. Gilbert

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Among the jazz records that really stood out for me as I began to get into the music was Grant Green’s Idle Moments. It’s acknowledged as one of the big releases on Blue Note during its golden era of the fifties and sixties and on that, I w...

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The Audacity of Blood, Sweat & Tears

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Listening My Way Through

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