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Double Takes—Junior Mance Published 4/13/1961 Life is full of double takes. Situations, circumstances and the persons connected with them have a way of reappearing in slightly altered patterns during a lifetime. Take Junior Mance, for example. Born Oct. 10, 1928, in Evanston, Ill., the pia …   More… Sounds From the Salsa Source: Tito and Machito Published 4/22/1977 When you are an habitué of the dance halls scattered around a city like New York, and your training ground has been the hotels in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, certain names remain with you, like Joe Loco, Joe Cuba, Tito Rodriguez, …   More… Lester ... Who? Published 1/31/1974 Lester Bowie is not your normal image of a bravura trumpeter. He doesn’t wear tailored, skin-tight pants like Maynard Ferguson, or his protege, Lin Biviano. In fact, of late he’s been into wearing bib overalls and a soiled railroad man’s cap. But he …   More…  Free Flow: A Conversation With Ray Charles Published 9/12/1963 The following conversation took place at Ray Charles’ home in Los Angeles. Charles: … I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together … liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn’t writ …  More…