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    Jul 06, 2021 3 minutes
    —Thomas Conrad

    The first time I heard Francesco Cafiso, I thought I was hallucinating. It was 2005. I had flown to Australia from Seattle to cover the Melbourne Jazz Festival. Cafiso appeared the first night. He was 15. He played the most outrageous bebop I had ever heard outside of Charlie Parker records. I thought I was delusional from jet lag.

    I wasn’t. Cafiso was one of the most extraordinary prodigies in

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