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This brass player toots his horn on underneath end from the Ohio-based Dave Greer’s Vintage Jazz Stompers. He shouldn’t be confused using the trumpeter and vocalist from the same name.

The talented Jasper “Jap” Allen began on violin, switching to tuba in senior high school and eventually taking on string bass. He led a music group that was regarded as among the best territorial bands from the ’30s; gave tenor saxophone great Ben Webster an early on job being a …

Charlie Singleton was a fresh York City-based saxophonist and bandleader who worked inside a leap blues/R&B vein through the past due ’40s and early ’50s. He and his group — alternately dubbed the Charlie Singleton Combo or the Charlie Singleton Orchestra — supported leap blues shouter H-Bomb Ferguson on several …

Given birth to somewhere in Ohio, Clarence Woods was raised in Carthage, Missouri. This place him correct smack in the center of ragtime territory, since it had been. He studied using the same man or woman who offered piano lessons to Wayne Scott. In 1903, Woods released something known as …

A veteran from the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region jazz picture, Debbie Poryes is a bop-oriented acoustic pianist whose melodic and introspective performing continues to be influenced by Costs Evans (the pianist, not the saxophonist), Marian McPartland, Ahmad Jamal, and pre-fusion Herbie Hancock. Poryes continues to be playing the …

The adventurous New Orleans trio Seeger, Petersen + Marsalis (SP+M) came collectively on rare occasions to explore their respective improvisation abilities. The trio arrived collectively on two events nearly a 12 months apart to total Finger towards the Universe, its debut record, and didn’t rehearse within this format prior to …

A Los Angeles-based modern ensemble that specializes in not specializing, Xtet’s repertoire and lineup are essentially liquid. The group offers, by 1998, 11 primary members, however the real lineup for just about any provided concert could be bigger or smaller sized. Their concerts add the traditional to compositions centered around …

Rufus Dark brown was a pseudonym found in the first ’60s by tenor saxophonist Bob Skiver.

Charles “Crimson” Richards’ epic commitment to classic jazz styles, such as for example stride piano, began in the second option half from the ’30s with bandleader Skeets Tolbert. Six years later on he was still heading solid, nibbling at Eubie Blake’s record of longevity until he passed away on-stage throughout …

Place 17 is a collective of improv music artists gathered from a Hamburg welfare community of mentally handicapped individuals. The group created out of many late-’80s classes led by sociable employee Kay Bosen. Realizing the immense restorative worth of music, he structured several jam classes of spontaneous music. Record label …