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RICHIE COLE...is a jazz master of the sax, brilliant arranger and composer, educator, and founder and director of The Alto Madness Orchestra which he created in the early 1990's to feature a rhythm section plus four horns. His talented and unique arranging achieves the “Big Band sound” even with such a smaller band. Cole began playing alto saxophone at age 10, and in high school he won a full scholarship from DownBeat magazine to attend the prestigious Berklee School of Music. His professional career began in 1969 when he joined the big bands of Buddy Rich, and then, Lionel Hampton and Doc Severinsen....

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RICHIE COLE...is a jazz master of the sax, brilliant arranger and composer, educator, and founder and director of The Alto Madness Orchestra which he created in the early 1990's to feature a rhythm section plus four horns. His talented and unique arranging achieves the “Big Band sound” even with such a smaller band. Cole began playing alto saxophone at age 10, and in high school he won a full scholarship from DownBeat magazine to attend the prestigious Berklee School of Music. His professional career began in 1969 when he joined the big bands of Buddy Rich, and then, Lionel Hampton and Doc Severinsen.

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