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One of the great jazz trumpeters of the post-1970 period, Oscar Brashear has been vastly underrated and often overlooked for two main reasons: he has not (as of 1999) led his own record date and he has been based in Los Angeles for three decades. In reality, Brashear, whose style is influenced by Lee Morgan, Woody Shaw and particularly Freddie Hubbard, has held his own with much ...more


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