Jim Rotondi, a prolific hard-bop jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, arranger, educator and conductor, whose horn appears on more than 80 recordings and 15 leadership albums, died on July 8 in Le Crest, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. He was 61. [Photo above of Jim Rotondi]
Born in Butte, Montana, in 1962, Rotondi was the youngest of five siblings. Al…
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