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“Everybody in my family played music. If I didn’t have an instrument, it felt like I wasn’t supporting them”

Charnett Moffett has enjoyed a long and productive career in the jazz world, inspired by the example of his late father Charles Moffett, who played drums for Ornette Coleman. A Juilliard alumnus, Moffett has played with the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Arturo Sandoval, Harry Connick Jr, Bette Midler, and Coleman himself. His current album, , which features guitarist and

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