When asked about the secret behind Van Morrison‘s classic Astral Weeks LP 50 years later, Warren Smith has a simple answer: “He got the right people.” The 84-year-old percussionist, who played vibraphone on the 1968 album, is referring to the crack team of jazz A-listers that producer Lewis Merenstein recruited …
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