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William Marcel "Buddy" Collette (August 6, 1921 – September 19, 2010) was an American tenor saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist. He was highly influential in the West coast jazz and West Coast blues mediums, also collaborating with saxophonist Dexter Gordon, drummer Chico Hamilton, and his lifelong friend, bassist Charles Mingus. Collette took up the alto saxophone at age 12 and led his first group, which included Britt Woodman on trombone and Charles Mingus on bass. At 17 he started playing professionally. After serving as a U.S. Navy band leader, he played with the Stars of Swing (featuring Woodman, Mingus and Lucky...

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Ned Collette is a Melbourne singer-songwriter signed with the Australian record label Dot Dash. Collette’s musical history to date draws on a broad sound palette: an honours degree in modern composition, works for string quartets, various electro-concrete pieces and playing in a variety of loose fit outfits whilst focusing his talents in City City City. Parallel to all this Collette produced his own album, Jokes & Trials. Forgoing the democracies of a group Collette played close to all the instruments, wrote all the songs as well as singing. Collette admits that the influence of Leonard Cohen, Robert Wyatt and Cat...