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| | Bickert, Ed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Bickert formed his own trio ca 1974, initially with Thompson (bass) and Terry Clarke (drums), and has been heard throughout Canada in clubs, at festivals, and on CBC radio. |
 | | With Thompson, Clarke and/or others during the 1970s and early 1980s, Bickert accompanied many US jazzmen at the Toronto club Bourbon Street, including Paul Desmond, Chet Baker, Red Norvo, Milt Jackson, and Frank Rosolino. |
 | | Assessments of his work with Desmond included references to 'an understated eloquence matched only by such masters as Jim Hall' (Chuck Berg, Down Beat, 7 Oct 1976) and the ability to 'combine in his solos the logic of a mathematician and the grace of an angel' (Jack Batten, Globe and Mail, 7 Jul 1976). |
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