INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Weekend Extra: Desmond Speaks (All About Jazz)
February 28th, 2010 | by |After three years of keeping his alto saxophone in the closet, in 1974 Paul Desmond finally succumbed to the exhortations of the Canterino family and agreed for the first time in a quarter of a century to play a club date as leader. The Canterino's club, the Half Note, had moved from lower Manhattan to Midtown. The new proximity was an important factor. "After all," he told me, "It's only a ...
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Weekend Extra: Desmond Speaks (All About Jazz)
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