From New York to LA and then back to New York

​… It was close! But it did happen. I had tried living in LA for a couple of years, starting in January 1967. By September,  despite the fact that I was getting pretty good gigs, Gerald Wilson’s  and Oliver Nelson’s Big Bands, and even some studio work with Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin, I was not lovin’ it there.

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