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Benny Meroff

b. 1899, USA, d. 1973. A reliable exponent of violin, saxophone and clarinet, Meroff’s 1st professional engagements had been in vaudeville. When he made a decision to type his very own dance music group in the middle-20s, he were able to recruit a number of the best sidemen of your …

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Hambone Willie Newbern

Little is well known approximately blues songster Hambone Willie Newbern; only half-dozen edges comprise the amount of his documented legacy, but among those six may be the first-ever rendition from the immortal Delta basic “Move and Tumble Blues.” Apparently delivered in 1899, he initial began to create a name for …

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