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Harry South: Further South

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Marc Myers
May 20, 2019
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Combine the sound of Quincy Jones's and Maynard Ferguson's big bands of the late 1950s and early 1960s and you wind up with Harry South. The British pianist, composer and arranger led monster big bands in the U.K. during these years. The bands he assembled included crack instrumentalists such as Ronnie Scott, Ronnie Ross and Tubby Hayes. South knew he h…

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