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b. Augustus Kwamlah Nii-lante Quaye, 3 Sept 1921, London, Britain, d. 13 March 2000, Amsterdam, holland. The son of the British music hall musician and Ga (Ghanaian) pianist Caleb Jonas Kwamlah Quaye (who, as ‘Mope Desmond’, used Sidney Bechet in London in 1921), Kaye started his singing profession with Billy …

Among England’s best mainstream trumpeters, Freddy Randall offers over time been a celebrity on many dixieland-oriented record times. In early stages he led the St. Louis Four (1939) and freelanced with additional up-and-coming players. In 1944, after armed service service, he caused Johnny Dankworth and joined up with Freddy Mirfield’s …

b. 20 August 1921, London, Britain, d. 23 Feb 2000. A dance music group vocalist/guitarist and music publisher, Full was the kid of Greek parents who emigrated to the united kingdom from Russia. His initial job within the music business was being a vocalist and guitarist using the Oscar Rabin …

Noted more for his high competence than for electrifying interpretation within an ever-broadening repertory, John Pritchard was non-etheless probably one of the most prominent of Britain’s post-WWII conductors and an exemplar from the increasingly international scope of the conductor’s interests. From the 1980s, he previously assumed four essential posts, which …

Dick Adam was a singer within the mid 1950s who enjoyed several strike singles but became more famous after he switched his focus on music posting and was the creator and owner from the DJM (Dick Adam Music) record firm. He was created Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick in the 12th …

Dirk Bogarde is really a British professional. His significant film appearances are the Servant (1963), Darling (1965), The Damned (1969), Loss of life in Venice (1971), and THE NIGHT TIME Porter (1973). Bogarde retired in the display screen in 1978 to become writer and created several books and books of …

b. 31 Might 1921, London, Britain, d. 29 November 1993, London, Britain. A self-taught pianist, Clare became a specialist musician at age 15 and through the next couple of years became a familiar physique around the London jazz picture. He used Carlo Krahmer, Sid Phillips among others in the first …

Few instrumentalists from the 20th century did even more to determine a single role for a musical instrument than Dennis Brain. By age group 36, he previously helped restore the four Mozart and two Strauss horn concertos towards the repertory; motivated Hindemith, Britten, among others to create for his device; …