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209:Mental Cruelty: The 1960 Jazz soundtrack
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579:Cosmopolitan Greetings
38:Background information
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385:For Flying out Proud
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924:Guinness Publishing
563:Beyond Another Wall
535:(flugelhorn) added
399:Percussion Profiles
184:As leader/co-leader
135:Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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71:Basel, Switzerland
56:Basel, Switzerland
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179:Discography
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860:As sideman
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667:Merryteria
651:Liebermann
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