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    Tom Schnabel's Rhythm Planet

    Central Avenue Sounds

    Tom Schnabel's guests celebrate music in the City of Angeles----The subject is Los Angeles' jazz scene on Central Avenue, presented by the musicians who made it, Gerald Wilson and Buddy Collette, the record producer who put it down on wax, Rhino Record's Bob Carlton, and Steve Isoardi, who chronicled it as author of Central Avenue Sounds (l998, UC Press).

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    By Tom Schnabel • Nov 13, 1999 • 1 min read

    Tom Schnabel's guests celebrate music in the City of Angeles----The subject is Los Angeles' jazz scene on Central Avenue, presented by the musicians who made it, Gerald Wilson and Buddy Collette, the record producer who put it down on wax, Rhino Record's Bob Carlton, and Steve Isoardi, who chronicled it as author of Central Avenue Sounds (l998, UC Press).

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