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As he reminisces in this interview, Orrin Keepnews produced records for the independent Riverside label during its highwater mark, working on records by Wes Montgomery, Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk and many others including, prior to his stint with Blue Note, trumpeter Blue Mitchell. As the story everyone loves to repeat goes, the difference between Blue Note’s records and those of its other main rival on the scene, Prestige, was “a day of rehearsal.” Paid rehearsal, as Keepnews points out. Riverside, says Keepnews, was somewhere in the middle, and they certainly made some fabulous records of their own (hello, “Incredible Jazz
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