Bud Shank was among the most widely recorded West Coast jazz reed players. He was on more than 600 known jazz recording sessions, according to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, and several hundred pop and movie sessions in the 1960s and beyond. Heard most often on alto saxophone, Bud began his recording career in 1947 with Ike Carpenter and then with Charlie…
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