In the final installment of my three-part series on off-the-radar jazz supergroups of the 1950s, I'm turning today to Buddy Collette and His Swinging Shepherds—a West Coast quartet of superb flutists who recorded only two albums for Mercury.
Both albums were arranged by Pete Rugolo (above), who pulled out all the stops in terms of writing complexity, sin…
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