Word: koyama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pianist Milcho Leviev, Bassist Bob Magnusson and Drummer Carl Burnett. His repertory ranged brilliantly over a variety of moods and rhythms, from standards (What Is This Thing Called Love?) to appealing originals (Ophelia, Blues for Blanche), and from wistful ballads (Over the Rainbow) through funky Latin beats (Mambo Koyama) to awesome, high-speed pyrotechnics (Cherokee). Amazingly, after all his debilitating periods of obscurity and silence, his full, ringing tone was unimpaired, his melodic gift intact, his instinct for pace and structure still solid...