January 27, 2023
Biography
Barney Wilen’s mom was France, his father an effective American dentist-turned-inventor. He was raised mostly in the French Riviera; the family members left during Globe Battle II but came back upon its bottom line. Based on Wilen himself, he was confident to become musician by his mother’s friend, the poet …
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January 26, 2023
Biography
Her name sounding just like a combination of poor wine and inclement weather, Corky Hale is well known similarly like a jazz harpist mild enough to attract the easy hearing crowd. Alternatively, a lot of hands becoming necessary for the harp aside from what is to check out, she actually …
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January 24, 2023
Biography
Among the best baritone saxophonists ever and a huge of Euro jazz, Lars Gullin will be better known today if he previously visited the U.S. frequently and if extreme drug use hadn’t trim short his profession. In early stages he learned to try out bugle, clarinet, and piano, and was …
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January 24, 2023
Biography
The past due Jaki Byard was, arguably, probably the most versatile pianist in jazz, though he also played trumpet and was a fantastic tenor saxophonist. Given birth to in 1922, he was raised during the fantastic era, even though more youthful than Duke Ellington, he embraced, as experienced his predecessor, …
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January 24, 2023
Biography
Chico O’Farrill was ideal within the thick from the Afro-Cuban and Latin waves that strike jazz in the past due ’40s and ’50s. His advanced composing for Latin big rings of the first ’50s was frequently daring, brassy, and anxious, yet he may possibly also attain a delicate, nearly classical …
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January 22, 2023
Biography
A member from the Manhattan Transfer from 1979, Cheryl Bentyne’s beautiful tone of voice, wide variety, versatility, and amazing stage presence produced her right into a main asset for the favorite vocal group right away. Her dad was a clarinetist who led a Dixieland music group, and Bentyne sang golf …
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January 21, 2023
Biography
The premier jazz vocal act ever, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross revolutionized vocal music through the past due ’50s and early ’60s by turning from the increasingly crossover slant from the pop world to embrace the sheer musicianship inherent in vocal jazz. Applying the ideas of bop harmonies to swinging vocal …
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January 21, 2023
Biography
Vocalist Jackie Cain (given birth to Might 22, 1928, Milwaukee, WI) and vocalist/pianist Roy Kral (given birth to Oct 10, 1921, Chicago, IL) first joined causes in 1946, and in 1996 they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary like a vocal duo. Jackie & Roy had been with Charlie Ventura’s music …
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January 20, 2023
Biography
Kristin Korb is both a swinging bassist and an intermittent jazz vocalist. Originally she was a guitarist and vocalist who loved nation music; Barbara Mandrell was among her early musical heroes. Korb also analyzed piano and violin. She went to the Soundsation Jazz Camp one summer time and came aside …
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January 20, 2023
Biography
An excellent altoist who’s a little underrated because of living in LA rather than leading that lots of periods of his own, Lanny Morgan was raised in L.A. He proved helpful (beginning in 1954) within the big rings of Charlie Barnet, Si Zenter, Terry Gibbs, and Bob Florence, offered in …
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