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Joe Locke

One of America's great jazz improvisers and composers, Joe Locke was raised in Rochester, New York, where he studied classical percussion and composition at the Eastman School Of Music. Influenced by be-bop, his precocious talent on the vibraphone earned him early attention and while he was still at high school he was playing with jazz giants of the caliber of Dizzy Gillespie, Pepper Adams and Mongo Santamaria. In 1981 he moved to New York and his reputation grew further following appearances with Grover Washington Jr., Kenny Barron and the Mingus Big Band, and in time he develop...