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Dwayne Clemons: 'Center of Gravity'

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Marc Myers
Feb 24, 2025
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If you didn't know trumpeter Dwayne Clemons and put on his new CD, you'd think you had jumped back in time about 70 years. Dwayne's sound has a jazz authenticity that is long lost after the anything-goes fusion years of the 1970s and mid-1980s and the Armani years of songbook standards in the late 1980s and early '90s. In other words, nobody sounds like…

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