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Unlike certain child prodigies or underage performers who are pushed into leading recording dates before their music has reached maturity, drummer Charles Downs waited  until he was 82 to release his first leadership session. Unlike 1940s-1950s discs by unheralded New Orleans veterans demonstrating that musicianship had passed them by, Downs is still a sympathetic percussionist working here with associates respectively around 12, 25 and 40 years younger. than him. Downs is certainly not unknown or… Read More