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Al Belletto: The Big Sound

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Marc Myers
May 06, 2019
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The last time I posted on saxophonist and clarinetist Al Belletto was in January, when I wrote about his first album in 1954, Kenton Presents, an Introduction to the Al Belletto Quintet. Today, my focus is on perhaps Belletto's finest leadership album, The Big Sound. Recorded by a Belletto-led sextet in Cincinnati for King Records in July 1960, the band…

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