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Buddy Collette: Shepherds

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Marc Myers
Oct 03, 2018
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Buddy Collette was one of the most accomplished studio musicians in Los Angeles in the 1950s and beyond. Music was prized in the Collette household when Buddy was little, and he began by playing the piano. His family hoped he'd become a concert pianist, but he switched to the saxophone in his teens. Later, in the Hollywood studios, what made Buddy parti…

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