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Episode 5: Before the Loft

The Jazz Loft Radio Series by The Jazz Loft Radio Series

Oct 26, 201500:13:23Arts

Like many of New York City's most influential artists, most of the prominent jazz musicians of the 1950s came from someplace else. After World War II, returning soldiers flocked to New York, bouncing from clubs to studio...

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