Art Pepper records ‘Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics’ with a big band conducted by Marty Paich (1959)

Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics’ is an album recorded on March 12, 24 & May 12, 1959 with a jazz big band conducted and arranged by Marty Paich and released the same year by Contemporary.

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Del-Fi Records publish ‘Ritchie Valens’ his first and only eponymous album featuring ‘La Bamba’ (1959)

Ritchie Valens‘ is his first and only eponymous studio album featuring ‘La Bamba’ and posthumously released, after his death in a plane crash, in March 1959 by Del-Fi Records.

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On TV today,Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller with David Letterman (1987)

Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller on Letterman, March 24, 1987 (full, stereo)
Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller on Letterman, March 24, 1987 (full, stereo)
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