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Giants Among Us: Bertram Turetzky

By Robert Bush Contrabass virtuoso Bertram Turetzky’s accomplishments are so numerous that his career almost reads like fiction. Born in 1933, he was already a veteran jazz performer and classical bass virtuoso in the late 1950s. In 1964 he released the first 20th Century classical music record featuring works by exclusively American composers, “Recital Of [...]

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