Joe Pass and Tommy Gumina

I last wrote about accordionist Tommy Gumina in 2011. Gumina and clarinetist Buddy DeFranco recorded five albums together in the early 1960s that remain swinging, moody and fascinating. Buddy and Gumina came up with a system of playing that involved polytones. As Buddy told me at the time for the post: "As I’m playing in one key, Tommy was playing unusu…