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Larry Katz (left) and Maurice Starr outside Starr s home in Roxbury, circa 1987.Courtesy of Larry Katz Before he came to Boston, Larry Katz was one of the Belmonts. After the New York native graduated from the Manhattan School of Music, he took gigs as a bass player. For a few years, he was a semi-regular on tour with the oldies act that recorded “A Teenager in Love” with Dion. By the late 1970s, Katz had moved to Boston, where he was hired to cover classical music for the Real Paper, the alternative weekly. Soon he was taking other assignments as well. When Dizzy Gillespie showed up at Tufts in 1980 to accept an honorary degree, Katz sat in the solarium of the president’s house with the jazz legend and talked about his recently released memoir, “To Be or Not to Bop.”

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