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Del Porter is among the music world’s forgotten guys. In the 1930s, he was one-fourth of a distinctive vocal quartet that wowed Broadway, loaded nightclubs, sang in films and radio, toured with Glenn Miller, and documented with Bing Crosby and Dick Powell. In the ’40s, his multiple and assorted skills …

b. Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, 4 Oct 1880, Union Furnace, Ohio, USA, d. 18 Dec 1955, Winona Lake, Indiana, USA. Elevated in Tennessee, Rodeheaver performed trombone and sang inside a wealthy baritone. After armed service service through the Spanish-American Battle, he studied regulation at Ohio Wesleyan College or university. Choosing a …

British saxophonist who did comprehensive recording and performing career ahead of World Battle II, after that had extended inactive period immediately afterward. Featherstonhaugh was informed in England, after that caused vocalist Pat O’Malley in 1927. He performed for Spike Hughes from 1930 to 1932, documenting two variations of “Buddy’s Thursday …

As personnel arranger for Jean Goldkette (1926) and Paul Whiteman (1927-1930), Expenses Challis was largely in charge of majority of both big rings’ most jazz-oriented graphs, including “Weekend,” “My Pretty Young lady,” “Adjustments,” “Dardanella,” & most notably “San.” Challis also had written for Frankie Trumbauer’s small-group times with Bix Beiderbecke, …

A member from the Duport category of cellists and composers. Jean-Louis examined with his sibling and was using virtoustic acclaim by age 18. He was weighed against the violinist Viotti and afterwards performed for Marie-Antoinette with Viotti. When the Trend occurred, Duport visited Prussia where he composed a treatise on …

Marvin Ash was an excellent string/stride participant who brought his own audio and enthusiasm to prebop jazz. Ash was raised in Kansas Town and performed in local rings including those of Wallie Stoeffer, Connie Conrad, Herman Waldman and Jack port Crawford. Over time surviving in Tulsa (1936-42) and focusing on …

One will not attempt to be considered a jazz article writer like you might to be always a doctor or an attorney. It just appears to happen. I was created on Oct 4, 1954, in the Bronx, NY. From enough time I had been two until I had been 11, …

Simone Felice is a multi-talented designer whose literate, artful, and passionate tunes have already been informed with a existence full of unstable drama. Simone was created on Oct 4, 1976 in Palenville, a little working-class city in upstate NY close to the Catskill Mountains. Felice’s existence was first designated as …

b. 4 Oct 1907, Tylertown, Mississippi, USA, d. 21 Sept 1974, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Even more properly seen as a songster in the custom of Mance Lipscomb, Stovall surfaced in the blues revival from the middle-60s. The youngest of 12 kids inside a sharecropping family members, he trained himself …

b. Hyacinth Hazel O’Higgins, 4 Oct 1922, London, Britain, d. 10 Might 1970, London, Britain (her calendar year of birth may also be shown as 1919). An exuberant comic professional and lively vocalist and dancer, Hazell was still in her early teenagers when she made an appearance as an associate …