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Dreyfus Records--committed not so much to putting a European stamp on jazz as reveling in the universality of the music--has been making available to the American public a …
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15 Jan
Welcome Home by Jean-Michel Pilc
Tuesday, 15 January 2002
Published in Straight-Ahead / Classic - CD Reviews
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