You'd think that a guy who played piano as powerfully as the late Marty Napoleon would be a reserved, aloof character. After all, Marty was the guy who replaced Earl "Fatha" Hines in Louis Armstrong's All Stars in 1952. That alone would have earned him the right to be a cool, emotionless cat. But that wasn't Marty. He was an outgoing keyboardist who sha…
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