Duke Henderson: Get Your Kicks (Delmark)
Kirk Silsbee, Delmark Records, May 1994
ASK THE handful of remaining African-American performers and entertainers who were active during Los Angeles' Central Avenue heyday in the 1940s about blues singer Duke Henderson and you'll usually draw a blank response.
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