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Title: Unknown 'Bone
Review: For the past couple of years, I've really been enjoying finding CDs by lesser known jazz players, so this JazzCity/Fresh Sound reissue was right up my alley. The disc collects four sessions from 1954-55 by trombonist Milt Bernhart, and his Octet and Brass Ensemble respectively. This is very inspired but fairly typical West Coast jazz featuring some of the best players of the day -- Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Jimmy Giuffre, Pete Candoli, Maynard Ferguson, John Graas, Pete Jolly, Curtis Counce, Red Mitchell, and more. Fans of the Shank/Cooper partnership will be right at home here. Even though there aren't other CDs by Bernhart from the 50s available, there are other contemporaneous titles in this "JazzCity" series by equally obscure artists, and I can't wait to check those out too.
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