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largely abandons all pretense of conventional blues idioms to couch Brown in a series of soul-jazz contexts that draw heavily on mainstream R&B formulas; the problem is the material, which spans from avant-garde jazz to bubblegum pop and stretches even a player of Brown's considerable range far
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279:John Lennon
261:Phil Medley
393:Categories
351:References
310:Acker Bilk
115:The Wizard
104:chronology
95:Bob Thiele
332:Mel Brown
326:Personnel
164:Reception
154:Mel Brown
102:Mel Brown
42:Mel Brown
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170:Allmusic
158:Impulse!
90:Producer
83:Impulse!
57:Recorded
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