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Edward (Thomas) Downes was a well-known and highly respected Uk conductor. (He had not been linked to the American music critic, lecturer, and Metropolitan Opera Broadcast intermission commentator Edward (Olin Davenport) Downes, [b. 1911].) Like a young man, he learned to try out the violin and piano and sang inside …
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A trombonist and arranger best remembered for stints to get Chico Hamilton and Duke Ellington, Jimmy Cheatham was also a jazz educator and bandleader, with wife Jeannie helming the Special Baby Blues Music group for near half a hundred years. Blessed in Birmingham, AL, on June 18, 1924, Cheatham is …
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