In the mid-1950s, drummer Kenny Clarke was the house drummer for Savoy records. Ozzie Cadena, Savoy's A&R chief, was aware that Clarke was plugged in to networks of musicians, so he paid him extra to assemble interesting combinations of talent for recordings. As a reader pointed out a few days ago, the Kenny Burrell and Pepper Adams album I posted about…
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