Dean Benedetti

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Dean Benedetti was a supporting band-mate, and good friend of saxaphone player Charlie Parker. Dean Benedetti was mentioned in Parkers Reisners Bird and The Legend Of Charlie Parker in 1962. He began as a tenor player and band leader in California and began selling his records to Mosaic Records in 1988. He quickly became addicted to heroin and rumor was started that Benedetti sold drugs to afford his expenses to send himself home. He moved home with his parents because of a muscular disease Mysasthenia Gravis. It quickly altered his playing conditions and he refrained from playing in public. Dean Benedetti died at age 34 on January 20,1957, and continued working on his music until that day.

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