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Tag Archives: 1920s – 1950s

Jimmy Dudley

The clarinetist and saxophonist Jimmy Dudley proves there have been great horn players appearing out of Hattiesburg, MS, a long time before George Cartwright. Dudley’s primary claim to popularity on the historical jazz picture was to have already been among the associates of the fantastic McKinney’s Natural cotton Pickers band, …

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Reginald Jones

Bassist Reginald Jones originates from the same prolonged music family whose most well-known member was cousin Roy Eldridge, among the great jazz trumpeters. The bassist, who also turns up acknowledged as Reg Jones and Reggie Jones, acquired even more musical brethren, including Reunald Jones Sr., just one more trumpeter, who …

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Joe Harris

As the nearly three decades of trombonist and vocalist Joe Harris’ profession were filled up with admirable services to jazz combos and orchestras, he’d did well to remain out of cars. In the past due ’30s he was out of actions for greater than a 12 months after fracturing his …

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Maxwell Anderson

Maxwell Anderson is greater referred to as a playwright when compared to a composer, but his collaborations with German-born composer Kurt Weill added many classic specifications to the favorite tune lexicon. Anderson was created in Atlantic, PA, on Dec 15, 1888. His dad worked being a journeying minister, and therefore …

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Lamartine Babo

Lamartine Babo had the privilege of experiencing a music family. His dad, Leopoldo de Azeredo Babo, was a chorão (person in a choro group), and his house was frequented by Ernesto Nazareth and Catulo da Paixão Cearense. His mom, Bernardina Gonçalves Babo, and his sisters, performed the piano in those …

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Jaime Redondo

Jaime Redondo had his biggest strike being a composer with “Ave Maria” (written with Vicente Paiva), recorded by Dalva de Oliveira in 1950, even though Francisco Alves also had achievement with his edition of “Que Noite!… E Que Pequena” (J.L. Sanders). His successes as an interpreter are “Alguns Dias Bons” …

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Eugene Rhodes

When there is a far more obscure nation blues musician than this fellow, after that he’s probably locked up somewhere, aswell, one hastens to include, because that was the problem when blues scholar Bruce Jackson first discovered Eugene Rhodes. He was performing a ten- to 25-calendar year stretch on the …

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Del Porter

Del Porter is among the music world’s forgotten guys. In the 1930s, he was one-fourth of a distinctive vocal quartet that wowed Broadway, loaded nightclubs, sang in films and radio, toured with Glenn Miller, and documented with Bing Crosby and Dick Powell. In the ’40s, his multiple and assorted skills …

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Gladys Swarthout

Gladys Swarthout was most widely known as a vocalist in the classical field, but she occasionally delved into lighter popular fare. Delivered and elevated in Deepwater, MO, she was the little girl of the railroad conductor. The family members acquired at least two extremely musical kids, and Gladys and her …

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Jimmy Hartwell

A multi-instrumentalist whose surname appears like a cheery if abbreviated survey from a cardiologist, Adam Hartwell came and went within a shroud of secret. While the information on his loss of life are completely unidentified, his mother evidently took time faraway from her profession as an organist to provide delivery …

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