The Eclectic Mr. Klein
Mar 08, 2019
3 minutes
GEORGE VARGA
our-time Grammy winner Larry Klein was only in his mid-teens when he had his first epiphany as an aspiring jazz bassist, thanks to the 1968 album . No doubt, other budding young musicians at the time were similarly inspired by the near-telepathic musical conversations between Evans, rising bass ace Eddie Gómez, and fresh-faced drum dynamo Jack DeJohnette. But Southern California native Klein is surely the only one who, while still underage, was introduced by his bass teacher to Gómez—and subsequently hung out with the Evans trio several times a year at
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