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A mellow, lyrical great jazz trumpeter within the vein of Chet Baker, Tony Fruscella unfortunately lived a similarly addictive life-style that resulted in a tragically premature loss of life. Fruscella was created in Orangeburg, NY, on Feb 4, 1927, and obtained his first essential experience playing within an Military band. …

A high mainstream jazz drummer for many years, Terry Clarke was created in Vancouver in 1944 and performed within the Vancouver jazz picture from your early- to mid-’60s before going south to america to become listed on saxophonist John Handy’s music group aswell as the backup group for vocal pop-soul …

A Texan by delivery, the pianist and vocalist Frank Jackson continues to be among the busiest players within the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA jazz scene heading back to the next World War period. Even though some listeners run into Jackson on recordings by bandleaders from the Western world Coast avant-garde …

As the longtime leader from the genre-defying close harmony quartet the Hi-Lo’s, Gene Puerling exponentially extended the variables of traditional pop vocals via sophisticated, jazz-inspired arrangements that profoundly shaped the rock and roll & move generation that followed in the group’s wake. Blessed March 31, 1929, in Milwaukee, Puerling initial …