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Bob Howard made an extraordinary variety of recordings during 1935-38, a sufficient amount of to fill five LPs. Using the reputation of Fatty acids Waller, Howard was agreed upon by Decca as competition but he hardly ever came close regardless of the usage of some significant sidemen. Howard transferred to …

Veteran Detroit pianist who played golf swing, big-band, bop, and R&B. A light, shiny character on his device, but has produced few recordings.

b. 15 Apr 1930, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Johnson analyzed music as well as the piano while he performed jazz in senior high school rings and in the environment Push. When he was discharged he visited LA where he gained a living composing arrangements while mixed up in avant garde …

If he previously been a “Doc” from the Old West, after that perhaps Doc West could have become a home name, from the stature of the Doc Holliday or similar Western gunslinger. However even between the masses of bebop fans, and certainly in the history of jazz background, the drummer …

Stuff Smith was among the big three of pre-bop violinists along with Joe Venuti and Stephane Grappelli. A lot of his followers stated that he could outswing most of his rivals, and certainly Stuff was a significant force around the bandstand. Smith, who cited Louis Armstrong as his primary influence, …

Mike Longo is best-known as a trusted and versatile participant who was simply the pianist with Dizzy Gillespie during 1966-1973. He began acquiring piano lessons when he was three, performed skillfully when he was 15, even though in senior high school in Foot. Lauderdale, he previously the opportunity to try …

b. Charles Coleridge Richards, 19 Oct 1912, Brooklyn, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 12 March 1998, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After playing traditional piano as a kid, Richards was relocated to carefully turn to jazz after hearing Fat Waller. He performed around the town of his delivery for quite some …

John Number had an extended and distinguished profession even if his abilities as an accompanist and supportive participant sometimes resulted in him being overlooked. He began on piano when he was 11 and within a season was playing in regional clubs. Number, a versatile pianist who was simply most motivated …

Among the finest pianists from the bop period, Dodo Marmarosa’s profession was cut brief by mental disease. He playeed locally initially and then produced strong contributions towards the orchestras of Gene Krupa (1942-1943), Tommy Dorsey (1944), Charlie Barnet (acquiring the starting piano solo for the strike “Skyliner”), and Artie Shaw …

Pianist Joe Bushkin lent his unmistakably light, spirited design to common swing-era schedules headlined by Bunny Berigan and Tommy Dorsey, later on getting into pop, cabaret, as well as Broadway. The kid of the cellist dad, he was created in NEW YORK on November 7, 1916 — although reputedly students …