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Bill Potts: 'How Insensitive'

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Marc Myers
May 05, 2014
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One of the rarest albums by pianist-arranger Bill Potts is How Insensitive (Decca). It was recorded by Brasilia Nueve (The Brazil Nine)—a studio band assembled in New York over two days in May 1967 to capitalize on the bossa-jazz craze. The album seems to have been intended as an Easy Listening entry, but like all things by Potts, the album shows except…

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