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Interview: Orrin Keepnews (Part 1)

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Marc Myers
Dec 17, 2007
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Orrin Keepnews is responsible for producing many of the most innovative and dynamic jazz albums of the 1950s and early 1960s. As co-founder of Riverside Records and the label's artistic conscience, Orrin forged close working relationships with jazz's brightest minds of the day, encouraging and capturing their most brilliant moments.

The classic albums Or…

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