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By Eric Olsen, Special to the Seattle TimesIn 1992, saxophonist Michael Brockman and drummer Clarence Acox led a “pickup group” of Seattle jazz musicians through some of Duke Ellington’s deep catalog at the University of Washington’s Meany Hall. They’d been staging an annual Ellington concert for three years. But this time, “We looked at each other,” Brockman remembers, “and said, ‘You know,…