Paul Murphy - Larry Willis 'Excursions'

and the Bay Area. In 1974, Jimmy Lyons heard Paul play in Oakland and suggested he move to New York. In the summer of 1974 Paul joined Jimmy Lyons's group and for the next 8 years Paul played, recorded and toured the USA and Europe with Lyons. During his extremely busy time period in New York, Paul still found time to manage Rashied Ali's historic-legendary club "Ali's Alley" while he led his own quintet with John Coltrane's world famous trumpet player Dewey Johnson (from his ...

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YouTube | July 31, 2007

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