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Walking and Writing

he jazz press noted the death of pianist Frank Kimbrough, who succumbed to an apparent heart attack at 64 on December 30, 2020, but gave it little fanfare. That’s to be expected. Kimbrough, one of dozens of jazz casualties since the COVID-19 pandemic began, would always be overshadowed in his passing by that of Chick Corea or Lee Konitz or Wallace Roney. But we may not

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