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b. Featherstone, Yorkshire, Britain. As a kid, Hicks started playing over the recorder before graduating towards the clarinet which she examined traditional music. She also performed tenor saxophone for some time. Her musical preferences inclined to the jazzier end of the existing pop range, including musicians such as for example …

Bass participant and vocalist Sammy Kasule may be the head of Makonde, a Stockholm-based music group comprised of music artists from Sweden, Zaire, and Gambia. Merging components of African soukous and Afro-Cuban rhythms, the group is well known because of its slick, pop-oriented audio. Kasule initially seduced attention as an …

Greg Turner functions full time like a pension specialist to get a financial services business, and spends the majority of his free time indulging in his enthusiasm for jazz. He’s a jazz radio programmer for the X-Star radio network, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lives. He is a part …

Brighton, England’s underground music picture was thriving during 1991. Guitarist/vocalist Andrew Clare was a musician in the town who was simply owning a cassette-only label known as Graphic Death because the age group of 16. It had been under his path that this pop/rock music group I’m Becoming Good started …

A swing-era saxophonist, Williams led his personal bands around NY and caused, amongst others, Lucky Millinder’s Mills Blue Tempo Band, Jelly Move Morton, Don Redman, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry “Crimson” Allen, Wayne P. Johnson, and Garvin Bushell through the ’30s and ’40s. He also performed in European countries while offering in …

Guitarist Joe Harris and mandolin participant Kid West, a set of Louisiana music artists most widely known for several 11 paths (including two needs from the elegant “Railroad Rag”) they recorded on Oct 9, 1940, in Shreveport, LA, for the Collection of Congress Folk Archives task, had an uncommon and …

The ’40s big-band scene was home not merely to a frontman named George Hall, the main one who gave vocalist Dolly Dawn her start, but to a sideman from the blend-in style aswell, a baritone saxophonist also named George Hall, whose slim quantity of recorded features add a mid-’40s aggregation …

Not to end up being confused with many music artists in the jazz genre simply by this name, Walt Johnson created Compact disc packages for many jazz performers circa 2001. He’s mostly of the graphic performers who could state they are receiving rich carrying out their job, since how he …

Fans of basic jazz from the big music group variety find out the affable trombonist Sonny Lee through the Jimmy Dorsey music group, but this gig didn’t happen until late in Lee’s profession, a period that it’s presumably fine to make reference to while “lately,” in least for punsters. Created …

b. André Paul Stephane Persiani, 19 November 1927, Paris, France, d. 2 January 2004, Paris, France. Persiany started playing piano as a kid and by his early twenties was an achieved leader of little groupings playing swing-style jazz. He caused many touring American jazz performers including Costs Coleman, Buck Clayton …