Back in March, I posted on Walt Namuth, an extraordinary jazz guitarist who never recorded a straight-ahead jazz album as a leader. Instead, he preferred to record as a sideman with vocalist Ethel Ennis in the early 1960s and tour with the Buddy Rich big band in the late 1960s and early '70s. The rest of the time he gigged close to home around his nativ…
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