Detroit jazz great Johnny Allen, a pianist-arranger you probably don't know by name if you're not from here, has died at 96. An amazing breadth to his career, from pre-war big bands to proto-bop, staff arranging jobs at Motown and Stax and a Grammy w/Isaac Hayes for their arrangement of "Shaft."
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