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Johnny Pace

A ballad and blues singer with small recordings, Speed was overshadowed by Sinatra, but rivaled Johnny Desmond, Chet Baker, and Bobby Darin.

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Robert Corwin

Bob Corwin’s 1st half-century of jazz piano starts with him furtively following a swaying hands of progressive bebop mastermind Lennie Tristano but winds up in a far more relaxed setting with Corwin seemingly taking it easy beneath the swaying trees and shrubs in Hand Springs. Biographers are keen on talking …

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Deardorf Peterson Group

Although they sport one particular old-school jazz combo names which makes them appear to be the type of fusty, hidebound corporation that underwrites political-affairs roundtables on PBS (“The program is manufactured possible with a grant from your Deardorf Peterson Group”), the Deardorf Peterson Group are in least as musically with …

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William Claxton

The photographs of William Claxton define the essence of great — his stunningly close images of icons like Frank Sinatra, Chet Baker and Bob Dylan combine specialized innovation and an unerring sense of as soon as to forge one aesthetic he thought as “jazz for the eyes.” Delivered in Pasadena, …

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Ole Edvard Antonsen

Ole Edvard Antonsen may have finished up a pianist as opposed to the renowned trumpeter that he became had it not been for the current presence of a common youth fear. He used the piano when he was 3 years old. 2 yrs later his family members, who resided outside …

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Stacy Rowles

A mellow-toned flügelhornist who emphasizes ballads, Stacy Rowles (the little girl of pianist Jimmy Rowles) has recorded for Concord and Delos, and became a fixture in the L.A. region with her function in the group Jazz Wild birds.

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Gerald Wilson

Every once in awhile, Gerald Wilson appeared like among Los Angeles’ better-kept secrets, an unusually skillful, imaginative, and charismatic bandleader who hadn’t received his due beyond your West Coast. His preparations were distinctive, frequently organic voicings and harmonies, rooted in golf swing and bop, however often forward-looking and lively in …

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Astrud Gilberto

The honey-toned chanteuse within the surprise Brazilian crossover hit “THE LADY From Ipanema,” Astrud Gilberto parlayed her previously unscheduled appearance (and professional singing debut) within the song right into a lengthy career that led to nearly twelve albums for Verve and an effective performing career that lasted in to the …

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Till Brönner

Trumpeter and crooner Right up until Brönner may be the most well-known German jazz musician of his era, updating traditional bebop sensibilities via components of modern R&B and hip-hop. Created in Viersen, Germany, on, may 6, 1971, Brönner found out the music of Charlie Parker at 13, and later on …

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Nate Birkey

Although a quintessentially west coast jazz musician, trumpeter/vocalist Nate Birkey is a Midwestern native given birth to in Indiana and raised in Colorado. Having a smooth, tenor tone of voice and pining trumpet audio Birkey pulls easy evaluations with “interesting college” luminaries such as for example Chet Baker, Kilometers Davis …

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