Bob Shad doesn't get enough credit. Not only did he produce Charlie Parker on Savoy and R&B and blues artists for National in the 1940s, but he also founded EmArcy, Mercury's jazz subsidiary, in the early 1950s, where he produced the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet, Cannonball Adderley, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Helen Merrill among many other…
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