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Texas-born pianist Walton backed Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane in his Dallas youth, played in the celebrated Jazztet with saxophonist Benny Golson, and became a cornerstone of the Art Blakey Jazz Messengers in the early-60s that included saxophonist Wayne Shorter.
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He was co-leader of the famous Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in the early '60s.
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See, when we had the group together, it was a Jazztet, but we used to refer to it as the Tet.
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After the event, Benny reminded me that, in 1957, I produced the album "Benny Golson's New York Jazz Scene" for Contemporary Records, his first as the leader of his Jazztet.
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Mr. GOLSON: Well, it's a resurrection of the old Jazztet.
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After departing the Jazztet, Tyner joined Coltrane's group in 1960.
Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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Tyner's career began with Benny Golson being the first pianist in Golson's and Art Farmer's legendary Jazztet 1960.
Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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He tried that out first of all with the Jazztet and very soon after that he started doing it with big band.
NewMusicBox 2010
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All of us played also in a small group; it was called the Jazztet.
NewMusicBox 2010
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A Jazztet performance evokes the classic two-horn quintets of Miles Davis and Horace Silver while embracing the most durable, standard tunes in the jazz canon alongside more contemporary works by composers such as Wynton Marsalis and Pat Metheny.
unknown title 2009
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