In 2018, before Samara Joy became the three-time Grammy-winning superstar jazz vocalist she is today, she sent me a Facebook message. She was studying at SUNY Purchase back then and wanted to reach Ronnell Bright, Sarah Vaughan's exquisite piano accompanist in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I had tracked him down and interviewed him for JazzWax in 2008…
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