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Composer Uri Caine finding new Philadelphia roots

Jazz pianist/composer Uri Caine's many years gone from his native Philadelphia are melting away, into a kind of music he wasn't taught at the University of Pennsylvania, and in places his colleagues don't typically navigate.

Uri Caine , jazz pianist and composer, premieres his jazz/gospel oratorio "The Passion of Octavius Catto" Saturday at the Mann center . (BILL DOUTHART)
Uri Caine , jazz pianist and composer, premieres his jazz/gospel oratorio "The Passion of Octavius Catto" Saturday at the Mann center . (BILL DOUTHART)Read more
    by David Patrick Stearns, Inquirer Music Critic
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