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Harry Carney

Harry Carney’s baritone saxophone was the anchor, the lodestone, the building blocks of a unique tonal blend that virtually defined the Duke Ellington Orchestra for a lot more than 45 years. A mainstay from the Ellington encounter, he continued to be with Duke much longer than other people and outlived …

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Cameo

An outlandish, in-your-face stage existence, a strange love of life, and a hard-driving funk audio that criss-crossed several musical limitations earned Cameo countless evaluations to Parliament/Funkadelic within their early days. Nevertheless, Cameo eventually used off accusations to be derivative by transcending their affects and outlasting nearly every single one of …

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Prodigy

Generally known as the greater lyrically gifted person in the brand new York hardcore rap duo Mobb Deep, Prodigy debuted being a solo artist in 2000 with H.N.We.C. on Loud Information. He returned towards the single area in 2007 with Come back of the Macintosh, a Koch launch produced entirely …

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Utopia

Stardom was handed to him with Something/Anything?, but Todd Rundgren turned down it. He wished to explore brand-new musical territory rather, and his travels led him to create Utopia in 1974. Originally, Utopia was a prog rock and roll septet offering three keyboardists, but as the ’70s advanced, the group …

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Libre

Libre, aka Manny Oquendo’s Libre, was co-founded in Oct 1974 simply by Manny Oquendo (b. 1931, Brooklyn, NY, USA, of Puerto Rican parentage; head, timbales, bongo, güiro, various other percussion, chorus, plans) and Andy González (b. 1951, Manhattan, NY, USA; bass, claves, additional percussion, chorus, plans). They fulfilled while dealing …

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Dorothy Fields

Oscar-winning American pop lyricist Dorothy Fields was the initial woman to become elected in to the Songwriters Hall of Popularity, in recognition of her lengthy and effective career of hit music, movie scores, and Broadway scores that spanned the past due ’20s through the first ’70s. She was created on …

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Ed Allen

A couple of two trumpeters in jazz by this name, but that one came first. Either could be happy to possess their names show up early on in virtually any encyclopedia specialized in this genre. Edward Clifton Allen was created in the united states music capital of Nashville, however the …

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The Dictators

Created in 1974, N.Con.C.’s Dictators had been among the finest & most influential proto-punk rings to walk the planet earth. Alternately reveling in and satirizing the wanton excesses of the rock & move way of life and lowbrow tradition (e.g., wrestling, Television, junk food), using their world-view described by bassist/keyboardist …

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Bobby Timmons

Bobby Timmons became thus well-known for the gospel and funky blues clichés in his solos and compositions that his abilities like a Bud Powell-inspired bebop participant have been lengthy forgotten. After rising in the Philadelphia jazz picture, Timmons caused Kenny Dorham (1956), Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, as well as the …

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Blossom Seeley

b. 16 July 1891, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA, d. 17 Apr 1974, NEW YORK, NY, USA. As a kid performer, even though still in junior college, Seeley made an appearance in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA theatres, carrying out speciality acts. Later on, she relocated to LA where she …

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