NEW RELEASE RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND

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"Running In The Background is one of Bruce Gertz's finest recordings...

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...[featuring] nine of Gertz's pieces performed by an all-star quintet also including a tenor-saxophonist Walter Smith III, guitarist Vic Juris, pianist-keyboardist Lawrence Fields, and drummer Marvin 'Smitty' Smith. Recorded on May 25-26, 2019 and now being released, this is one of the last recordings of Juris who passed away seven months later and has been missed ever since."

-Scott Yanow

(Jazz journalist, historian, and author)

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