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and accompanying jazz greats like Herbie Mann throughout the decade. He signed to Atlantic in 1967 and Polydor in 1970, releasing at a rate of more than an album a year for the next several decades.

He will also perform at the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center on Tuesday, April 15 during the festival's preview event.

From Miles Davis to Chet Baker, 16-year-old trumpeter Shane Nelson from Olympia, is the School of Jazz guest DJ for March.