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vibraphonist and bandleader. Doriz learned saxophone and piano as a youth in addition to vibraphone, the latter of which he studied under

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. In the late 1950s and 1960s, he worked as a sideman for

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, Dominique Chanson, Bill Coleman, Peanuts Holland,

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, Eddie Jones, Duffy Jackson, and

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References

*Michel Laplace, "Dany Doriz". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

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