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Canada’s top jazz accordionist, Gordie Fleming (name: Gordon Kenneth Fleming) was created in Winnipeg on August 3, 1931. He started playing the accordion at an extremely early age, and by age five had been producing the rounds on Manitoba’s vaudeville circuit. He toured a lot of traditional western Canada during …

b. William C. Disley, 27 Might 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Disley was raised in Wales as well as the north of Britain, where he discovered to try out banjo, switching to electric guitar at age 14 when he noticed Django Reinhardt. Among his first jazz gigs was an interval using …