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Eric Kloss: A Soulful Start

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Marc Myers
Jan 23, 2018
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When Eric Kloss recorded Introducing Eric Kloss at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., in September 1965 he couldn't drive. For one, he was blind since birth. For another, he was just 16. But even at that early age, Kloss could blow, as evidenced by his sidemen on his first album: Don Patterson (org), Pat Martino (g) and Billy James (d), 

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