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The Jazz Soul of Washington

By AAN Staff
august 12, 2003  12:30 pm
The Jazz Soul of Washington
In the winter of 1956, Bill Potts and his trio made musical history in a D.C. nightclub when they played for six nights with jazz legend Lester Young. "We knew on the first tune," Potts says. "It was heaven." When the tapes were released more than two decades later, they helped rehabilitate the reputation of Young's later years. Eddie Dean writes about that magical week and the years leading up to Potts 1959 classic, "The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess."
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