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David “Fathead” Newman

As an adolescent, David Newman played professionally around Dallas and Fort Worthy of with Charlie Parker’s coach, Buster Smith, and in addition with Ornette Coleman within a music group led by tenor saxophonist Crimson Connors. In the first ’50s, Newman proved helpful locally with such R&B music artists as Lowell …

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John Storm Roberts

A teenage fascination for calypso and flamenco music was converted into a successful profession as a manufacturer and critic of globe music by John Surprise Roberts. A graduate of Oxford School, where he gained a qualification in world dialects, Roberts started his profession by researching albums for the paper in …

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