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Wright, nicknamed "Senator", had played with the Lonnie Simmons group, and led his own band, the Dukes of Swing, but his big break came when he was recruited by Dave Brubeck. He had a very solid, Kansas-city style, theoretically at odds with, but in practice an important component of Brubeck's cool, mannered jazz.
Wright played with Gene Ammons, Count Basie and Arnett Cobb in the late '40s and early '50s, then worked with Buddy DeFranco from 1952 to 1955, touring Europe with him.
Wright was featured in a film short with Charlie Barnet, then joined Brubeck in 1958 and remained until 1968.
Wright worked in television studios and did film soundtrack work as well as play in clubs during the '70s.
Wright passed away Sunday in an apartment in the three-story brick building on Oakland Avenue, where she and her late husband lived for years and where her beloved newspaper is put together.
Wright was a mainstay at a paper that is itself a Warwick institution.
Wright was a staunch Democrat in a predominantly Republican town.
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