Sometime after March 1969, trumpeters Burt Collins [pictured above] and Joe Shepley went into the studio and recorded a masterpiece. I'm betting you've never heard the album—Time, Space & the Blues—because it has never been released digitally and is rare on vinyl. Pianist Mike Abene wrote many of the songs and all of the arrangements except one—Soft Lan…
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