In the spring of 1956, bassist Oscar Pettiford, in tandem with producer Creed Taylor, began assembling musicians and arrangers for what would become one of the hippest and sexiest jazz orchestras of the mid-decade period. Two studio albums were recorded for ABC-Paramount, where Creed was head of jazz A&R. Back in 2008, when I interviewed Creed, I asked …
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