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Since leaving NY in 1959, Tony Scott (a high bebop-oriented clarinetist) continues to be an eager globe traveler who enjoys exploring the folk music of other countries. Regrettably, his post-1959 recordings have already been few, much between, difficult-to-locate, and occasionally erratic, but Scott was an unheralded pioneer both in globe …

Perhaps one of the most individualistic pianists, composers, and arrangers of his era, Ahmad Jamal’s disciplined technique and minimalist design had an enormous effect on trumpeter Mls Davis, and Jamal is frequently cited as adding to the introduction of great jazz through the entire 1950s. Though Jamal was an extremely …

b. 3 August 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Elevated in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Wilson researched piano at Fort Wayne University of Music as well as the College or university of Indiana, as time passes out for a fleeting professional foray with Adam Moody. He briefly performed baritone saxophone but after settling …

A versatile studio room musician who’s skilled on all sorts of percussion, Larry Bunker’s primary significance to jazz continues to be being a drummer and vibraphonist. He was an associate from the Gerry Mulligan Quartet in 1953 (changing Chico Hamilton) and primarily worked within the studios but surfaced within the …

Bongos, congas, percussion. Among rare percussionist outdoors Latin circles whose initial device was bongos. Burger provides scant legacy, just three albums had been done in LA in early ’60s for Hello there Fi label.

An excellent bop pianist influenced by Bud Powell, Claude Williamson continues to be busy playing for the Western world Coast because the 1950s. The old sibling of trumpeter Stu Williamson, Claude began on piano when he was seven and got a decade of traditional piano lessons, also their studies at …

Among the hardly any bass trumpet professionals in jazz background, Cy Touff, although closely connected with Western Coast Jazz, offers actually been a fixture in Chicago for many years. Touff performed piano (beginning when he was six), C-melody sax, and xylophone before briefly buying trumpet. He was within the Military …

Using a multi-octave voice much like Betty Carter’s, incredible scatting ability, and simple transition from a throaty whisper to high-pitched trills, Cleo Laine was created in 1927 within the Southall portion of London, the daughter of the Jamaican father and English mom. Her parents delivered her to vocal and dance …

b. 23 Feb 1971, Poor Ischl, Austria. Musically willing through her mom, a music instructor, and her grandfather, a conductor, Strassmayer performed recorder from age four, in that case piano and flute. At 17 she began on alto saxophone after hearing Cannonball Adderley, later on recalling the way the encounter …

Regarded as by many to become the best possible jazz trombonist ever, J.J. Johnson somehow moved the improvements of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to his even more awkward instrument, using such velocity and deceptive simplicity that at once some listeners assumed he was playing valve (instead of slip) trombone. …