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Marty Sheller: Libre

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Marc Myers
Apr 11, 2017
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Back in the 1960s, Marty Sheller did a sizable share of arranging for Mongo Santamaria. Marty was in the trumpet section of Santamaria's band and was on his all-important Latin-jazz rendition of Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man in December 1962. Marty also had a hand in most of those cool albums Santamaria recorded featuring Latin versions of contemporar…

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