DIAL & OATTS

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Pianist, composer, producer, and teacher Garry Dial and saxophonist Dick Oatts had already put together impressive résumés before joining together to form the post-bop duo Dial & Oatts in 1990. A native of Iowa, Oatts joined the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra soon after moving to New York in 1972. Since then, he's gone on to work with a diverse range of jazz and Latin musicians including Eddie Gomez, Jerry Bergonzi, Lester Bowie, Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Paquito D'Rivera, Tito Puente, and Gunther Schuller.

A member of the Red Rodney/Ira Sullivan Quintet in the late '70s and early '80s, Dial appeared on the group's Grammy-nominated albums Live at the Village Vanguard in 1980 and Ira Sullivan Does It All in 1981. In addition to brief stints as pianist for James Moody and Gerry Mulligan, he played on three albums and a video by folk-pop trio the Roches. A longtime student of
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Dial & Oatts
Progressive Big Band 1989
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Brassworks
Progressive Big Band 1990
DIAL & OATTS Dial & Oatts Play Cole Porter album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dial & Oatts Play Cole Porter
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1993
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That Music Always Round Me (feat. The Temple University Concert Choir & Vocal Jazz Collective)
Third Stream 2014
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Rediscovered Ellington
Big Band 2017

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