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Article: Soul Music.(Cachao, Rolando Alphonso, Thomas McCook, and other Cuban jazz musicians)(Brief Article)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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As a teenager, I dug Duran Duran, Prince, the Specials, the Ohio Players, the Buzzcocks, the Jam, the Beatles, the Who, Cool and the Gang, George Clinton, even George Jones. And I coveted my father's collection of jazz, blues, and early 1960s lounge.
Now, twenty years later, I still base my musical tastes on what makes me bop my head. On a recent trip to my hometown of St. Louis, as I was traveling through central Illinois, where the radio landscape is as flat as the state's topography, the great Cuban bassist Israel "Cachao" Lopez and the Jamaican legends the Skatalites saved my wife and me from going nuts.
But this musical trip also caused me to ...
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