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Little Bird Suite, Pacific Jazz PJ-74; Leonard Feather, liner notes
The anchor record of the town's jazz line is an album whose own notes give the town its line. Leonard Feather's liner notes to Little Bird Suite (Dick Grove Orchestra, Pacific Jazz PJ-74) open with the birth line: "Born December 18, 1927, in Lakeville, Indiana, he was not seriously interested in music until about 1942…" Grove moved to California in 1954; the album is a Hollywood session, its tracks timed on the label — Nighthawk 2:55, Bird of Paradaiso 8:18, Mosca Espaniola 5:00, Little Bird 2:15, Canto de Oriole 6:05, Doodad 2:25, Circlet 4:59 — all originals except "Little Bird" commissioned by Dave Robbins' Jazz Workshop, with Paul Horn the featured alto soloist, the orchestra a rehearsal group of about three years' life. Grove's wider session work — with Alvino Rey, Paul Horn, Buddy Rich, and Nancy Wilson — stands in Famous People. No session of Grove's was ever played in Lakeville; the town's place in his discography is the birth line in the notes, and it is enough to anchor the leg.