Yesterday I posted about the Jazz Lab, a little-known, short-lived East Coast jazz quintet co-led by Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd in 1957. Today, continuing with my series on jazz supergroups of the mid-1950s, I'm turning to Les Jazz Modes, a quintet co-led by French hornist Julius Watkins and tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse that began a year earlier and …
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