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Hot Track: A Fifth for Frank

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Marc Myers
Oct 18, 2018
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Curtis Counce recorded his first leadership album in October 1956. For the Contemporary Records session, the West Coast jazz bassist assembled a muscular quintet—Jack Sheldon (tp), Harold Land (ts) Carl Perkins (p) Curtis Counce (b) and Frank Butler (d). All of the tracks on The Curtis Counce Group are killer, but A Fifth for Frank stands out because of…

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