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For more than fifty years I've been listening to jazz and playing (a student at Westlake College in Hollywood) and only two trumpeters impressed me with the ability to, as Dave Pell notes, make melodies out of each improvisation: Clifford Brown and Don Fagerquist. We can only hope that as more and more of Don's material becomes available to the public that he will attain the public stature he so richly deserves. Fagerquist was and remains one of the greats of the trumpet.
Joe M. Hayes
Del Mar, CA
Dave Pell on Don Fagerquist
If you're unfamiliar with trumpeter Don Fagerquist [pictured], that's about to change. The now nearly forgotten West Coast trumpeter had one of the richest tones in the business in the 1950s and 1960s, and he made everything he played sound melodic and effortless. Fagerquist's solos were like t...
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