February 25, 2023
Biography
Eddie Locke was area of the extremely fertile Detroit jazz picture of the past due 1940s and early ’50s, and during a lot of his profession leaned even more towards golf swing and mainstream music, although he was an extremely capable drummer in newer settings. He previously a variety work …
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February 18, 2023
Biography
Toots Thielemans virtually introduced the chromatic harmonica being a jazz device. In fact, from the middle-’50s, he never really had a close competition. Thielemans simply performed the harmonica using the dexterity of the saxophonist and also successfully exchanged off with famous brands Oscar Peterson. Thielemans’ initial device was the accordion, …
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February 12, 2023
Biography
Freddie Green was known throughout his lengthy career because the definitive tempo guitarist. He seldom soloed (briefly on several records in early stages), he trapped to classical guitar, and was frequently more sensed than noticed. Although he previously originally performed banjo, Green was playing electric guitar in NY in early …
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February 9, 2023
Biography
Through the ’50s and ’60s, Bobby Donaldson was a prolific soul-jazz, mainstream, and hard bop drummer who proved helpful smoothly with a bunch of players. He used rings in his Boston hometown duing the first ’40s, after that with Russell Procope during his military service in the brand new York …
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February 9, 2023
Biography
Jacob Young was created in 1970 in Lillehammer, Norway, and currently resides in Oslo. He began monitoring guitar by himself at age 12 after becoming released to jazz by his dad, an American. He researched music in the College or university of Oslo and received a scholarship or grant to …
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January 26, 2023
Biography
Guitarist, keyboardist, and multi-instrumentalist Kurt Rosenwinkel is an extremely gifted performer using a liquid, harmonically rich method of genre-bending jazz and rock and roll. Blessed in Philadelphia in 1970, Rosenwinkel was raised within a musical family members with parents who began him on piano at age group nine. By age …
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January 8, 2023
Biography
An excellent bop-oriented soloist similarly skilled in his cool-toned tenor and flute, Bobby Jaspar’s early death from a center ailment was a tragic reduction. As an adolescent, he performed tenor within a Dixieland group with Toots Thielemans in Belgium. He documented with Henri Renaud (1951 and 1953) and used touring …
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January 4, 2023
Biography
Jimmy Raney was the definitive awesome jazz guitarist, a liquid bop soloist having a peaceful sound who had significant amounts of internal fire. He caused local organizations in Chicago before spending nine weeks with Woody Herman in 1948. After that he was within the main leagues, having organizations with Al …
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January 3, 2023
Biography
A fantastic guitarist using a soulful audio and the capability to uplift any funky jazz time, Jimmy Ponder has appeared in many recordings during his longer career, more than 80 being a sideman and 15 being a head. Ponder started playing electric guitar when he was 14 and considers Wes …
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January 2, 2023
Biography
A very tasty soul-jazz and blues guitarist, Billy Butler adroitly blended a Charlie Christian strategy with ’50s R&B grooves and backbeats. He coaxed a warm, fats build from his hollow-bodied guitar, and supplied deceptively basic solos and fills that became staples from the R&B electric guitar vocabulary. Costs Doggett’s “Honky …
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