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Pat Britt: 'Jazz From San Francisco,' 1966

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Marc Myers
Jun 19, 2024
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If alto saxophonist Pat Britt hadn't stolen bologna from a Bay Area supermarket in 1958 at age 18, we might never have known his name or his role in helping to found the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, a jazz club still operating on Miramar Beach in Half Moon Bay, Ca. The beach-house club became Half Moon Bay's version of The Lighthouse at Hermosa Beac…

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