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Bill Leslie


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I remember hearing about him, I think our old friend Mr. Fenohr was looking for a copy and I spotted one and fulfilled his need. This was back when I was on the trail of Argo records, but without a true commitment to everything.

 

(Still never found the Richard Evans Home Cookin' thing, with Jack Wilson on piano. God still only knows if it was released. I know Evans told Eddie Higgins he remembers having photos taken outside of a soul food restaurant, for the cover.)

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Was wondering if anyone knew anything about him, why he recorded so little, what happened to him. There are the two Argo albums, the one co-led with Thornel Schwartz and the one he led on his own, and the Larry Young session for Prestige? i guess, per JSngry, that he was a homey of Young's from Newark. 

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But not a contemporary of Larry Young's -- I found from another source that he was born in 1925, which would make him more a contemporary of Thornel Schwartz. And like Schwartz, a Philadelphian, so Schwartz probably got him the gig on the Larry Young session.

I also found out that he played for some years with Louis Jordan.  So an old school rhythm and blues player taking on a free jazz classic. Interesting. And I found the Argo album on YouTube to his version of "Lonely Woman." Interesting. He really meets it head on.

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