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Ullmann & Swell

Gebhard Ullmann & Steve Swell

Cool struttin'

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 4/8/2011

During the first decades of its existence, jazz was uniquely American. From London, where Louis Armstrong performed before King George V, to Bangkok, where King Bhumibol Adulyadej became an accomplished improviser, American jazz was admired and imitated, but only a few musicians were able to make original contributions to the art. Like so much else, this all

 
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