"Larry Willis" is an United States/American jazz pianist and composer. He has performed in a wide range of styles, including jazz fusion rock music, Bebop and Avant-Garde.

After his first year studying music theory at the Manhattan School of Music he began performing regularly with Jackie McLean. After he graduated he made his first jazz recording, McLean's Right Now!, which featured two of Willis' compositions. His first recording of any type, however, was as a singer with the Music and Arts Chorale Ensemble, performing an opera by Aaron Copland under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. He decided to concentrate on jazz because of the difficulties African American musicians had in finding work in concert music. He is still recording and touring around the world.

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We got the hit we needed at the right time. We've been slow at the plate, but we stayed close with our fielding and pulled it out in the end. That was a big a play at the right time.

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It was really short notice for us. He had been eating like a pig because he didn't have to fight. Him being an athlete the weight came off fast.

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I hope some of Marcus' fights get broadcast. I hope he does well enough to get some attention. We watched this on TV last year, and this year we get to be there.

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