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Over 20 years he established ties with many of the great man's sidemen, friends and family.
ECONOMIST: Jazz biography
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In 1974 Mundell was able to leave the orchestration of his masterful economic score up to a quartet of sidemen--Reagan, Kemp, Roth and Wanniski.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Backing her up: the churchy piano of Spooner "I Played with Aretha" Oldham, a wailing country guitar and the rootsy sidemen of Drive-By Truckers.
NPR: Bettye LaVette Picks Up the Pieces of a Lost Career
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Highly dynamic 28-year-old drummer Eric Harland joins the group as one of the most demanded sidemen today, and frequently gigs with Dave Holland as well.
NPR: Newport Jazz 2008: The Monterey Quartet
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And as Mr. Alterman began to record his own sessions, Mr. Person, when he had the time, became one of his sidemen also helping him find the right keys and teaching him the business side of jazz.
WSJ: Joe Alterman Strikes a Chord | By Nat Hentoff
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Mr. Virelles is one of several Cuban musicians living in New York who have fully absorbed the environments of two islands Cuba and Manhattan and now exert influence through subtle innovations as sidemen and bold strokes as bandleaders.
WSJ: A Man of Two Islands | David Virelles | Village Vanguard | By Larry Blumenfeld
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Alumni of Gillespie's orchestras and new players convene in the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars Big Band, with longtime Gillespie sidemen musical director Slide Hampton (trombone) and executive director John Lee (bass) running the show on New Year's Eve at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.
NPR: Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars, New York Voices In Concert
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Hines is playing more piano than most bandleaders, but he's also giving his sidemen plenty of room to shine, particularly saxophonist and arranger Budd Johnson, who first appears in the band's reed section in 1937, and would continue to work on and off with Hines for the rest of Hines's life (Johnson died a year after Hines, in 1984).
WSJ: Fatha Played Well With Others | Earl Hines | By Will Friedwald