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The Eddie Heywood Sextet was extremely popular in the mid-’40s, playing melodic and tightly arranged versions of swing standards. Heywood’s dad, Eddie Heywood, Sr., was a solid jazz pianist from the 1920s who frequently followed Butterbeans and Susie. He trained piano to his child, who played expertly when he was …

Ben Webster was considered among the “big 3” of golf swing tenors along with Coleman Hawkins (his primary impact) and Lester Teen. He had a hardcore, raspy, and brutal build on stomps (along with his very own distinctive growls) however on ballads he’d become a pussy kitty and play with …

Although he was quite spirited taking part in jug, Clarence Williams was only a good pianist and a likable but limited vocalist. Nevertheless, he was also a talented composer, composing or co-writing dozens, of unforgettable music like “Royal Backyard Blues,” “MANY PEOPLE REALLY LIKE My Baby,” “Western world End Blues,” …

This under-recorded pianist is most beneficial known for a set of sides under his own name, both originally releases from Vanguard in the next half from the ’50s. A lot of his profession was spent playing single in various locations that involved pianists and even though he do also are …

Simply no educated listener would ever declare that an integral is of simply no importance to a jazz and blues saxophonist, but Bob Fuller didn’t realize just what a powerful thing an integral is until he still left the music business completely. That’s because Fuller’s following work, after spending a …

Although she was hardly the magic size for the song character of Minnie the Moocher, Blanche Calloway was the sister of both famous jive bandleader Cab Calloway as well as the lesser-known performer Elmer Calloway. Her 1st high-profile gigs had been in the energetic Ciro Golf club in NEW YORK …

This pianist was created Ellerton Oswald, a name that surely doesn’t sound as jazzy because the one he’d later adopt when he began employed in the mid-’30s within a combo led by Jesse Stone. He continuing playing piano until his loss of life in 1969, sticking religiously to 1 type …

Andy Kirk was never a significant musician (actually he hardly ever really soloed), arranger or character yet he was an effective big bandleader within the 1930s and ’40s. He began playing bass sax and tuba in Denver with George Morrison’s music group in 1918. In 1925, he shifted to Dallas …

Jazz and pop arranger/composer Can Hudson led the Hudson-DeLange Orchestra around once (mid- to late ’30s) he was composing important pieces want “Moonglow,” “Body organ Grinder’s Golf swing,” and “Hocus Pocus.” Blessed in California in 1908, Hudson resided in Detroit, MI, by enough time he got into high school. During …

Biographers of Georgia Tom Dorsey prefer to help to make comments such as for example “his existence was a full time income testimony of the energy of God.” But there is also the trashy part to the person, expressed greatest in song game titles such as for example “Terrible Procedure …