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Claude Bartee

Claude Bartee is a musician. They also recorded with Aquarian Dream and Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers.

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2 projects · 7 records in Gatefold collections

Biography

Saxophonist, Bartee, graduated from Crispus Attucks High School during the early 1950's. and played on the school’s famous basketball team.
In the early 1960's he left Indianapolis, Indiana, beginning a journey that would lead him to some of the greatest musicians, and record labels in American music, playing with the Latin jazz band Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers. Bartee played on the group’s first three albums for Prestige Records.
Claude Bartee is one of the unsung heroes of the Naptown music scene. Bartee played on guitarist Grant Green’s funky early ‘70s Blue Note albums, which have been heavily sampled by hip-hop groups like A Tribe Called Quest.
In the mid/late 1970's, Bartee co-founded Aquarian Dream.

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