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- ↑ Website of Randy Brecker
- ↑ "Seventh Avenue South – Legendärer Jazzclub in Manhattan". Jazzband Live (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-17.
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (10 August 2016)
