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Jimmy Beasley

Within the mid- to later ’50s, pianist Jimmy Beasley documented a few of the most faithfully Fats Domino-like music of the time for Modern Reports. Beasley, unlike Domino, wasn’t from New Orleans. However the resemblance to Domino on a lot of his monitors wasn’t a major accident, as a lot …

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Billy Mize

b. 29 Apr 1929, Kansas Town, Kansas, USA. Elevated within the San Joaquin Valley of California, Mize initial learned to try out guitar as a kid, but changed into steel electric guitar when he received one for his 18th birthday. Originally, he was inspired with the music of Bob Wills …

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Bob Brookmeyer

Bob Brookmeyer was lengthy considered among the best valve trombonists in jazz and an extremely advanced arranger whose composing was influenced by contemporary classical music. He began being a pianist in dance rings but performed valve trombone with Stan Getz (1953). He obtained fame as an associate from the Gerry …

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