GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
Stuff Smith and Oscar Peterson
(Poll Winners Records PWR 27222)
THE violin has often struggled in a jazz context but no musician had a greater impact in establishing it as a jazz instrument than Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith, who was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1909.
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