OBITUARY: Buddy Collette's Los Angeles

In 1999, the late jazzman reflected on his early musical career, Central Avenue, Charles Mingus and the fusion of the segregated musicians' unions. Buddy Collette, the legendary jazz musician who died in Los Angeles on Sunday, at 89, both profited from and contributed to the rich midcentury jazz scene along Los Angeles' Central Avenue. Playing the saxophone before he entered his teens, Collette started his first band at 12, later performing with the Chico Hamilton Quintet as well as for Lili ...

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