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Pianist John Campbell, a robust player who’s creative inside the tradition, is most beneficial known for his organizations with Mel Torme as well as the Terry Gibbs-Buddy DeFranco quintet. He began piano lessons at seven, and in 1977 transferred to Chicago. His trio/quartet (known originally as Campbell’s Group) was shortly …

This ’50s and ’60s band was modeled on the present day Jazz Quartet, and featured vibraphonist Jack port Brokensha.

Terry Pollard was quite dynamic in jazz from the 1950s, while not an excessive amount of was heard from her in subsequent years. She was area of the extremely fertile Detroit jazz picture in the past due ’40s and early ’50s, playing piano with lots of the main up-and-coming players …

Ted (tenor sax and flute) and Dick (trombone) both performed in big rings and television soundtracks in Los Angeles/Hollywood. Ted was a presented soloist w/ Les Dark brown in the mid-’40s; Dick performed prominently w/ Glen Grey and Billy May’s Orchestras. Both possess freelanced for a long time and continue …

Victor Feldman was a kid prodigy who was simply a specialist from age seven and sat in on drums with Glenn Miller’s Military Air Force Music group in 1944 when he was 10. He was energetic in his indigenous Britain through the bebop years (mainly on drums), debuting like a …

Eddie Costa emerged from an unlikely background right into a heralded — if too short — profession in jazz. Given birth to inside a rural coal mining city, Costa analyzed piano along with his sibling Expenses and created a flavor for the golf swing greats; later, contact with Bud Powell …

Lengthy known for his expertise in discovering an ideal chord for an ideal situation, the refined Jimmy Rowles was popular for decades simply because an accompanist while being underrated being a soloist. After playing in regional groupings in Seattle, Rowles shifted to LA in 1940 and caused Slim Gaillard, Lester …

Teddy Charles is a genuine rarity: a jazz musician who largely retired from the business enterprise. A skillful otherwise overly unique vibraphonist and (early in his profession) quite able on piano and drums, Charles was as very important to his open-minded strategy in the 1950s toward more complex noises as …

Willie Bobo was among the great Latin percussionists of his period, a relentless swinger for the congas and timbales, a flamboyant showman onstage, and an engaging if modestly endowed vocalist. He also produced serious inroads in to the pop, R&B and right jazz worlds, and he constantly stated that his …

Largely forgotten right now, Gary McFarland was one of the most significant contributors to orchestral jazz through the early ’60s. An “adult prodigy,” as Gene Lees accurately mentioned, McFarland was a nifty little composer whose music could reveal tones of complex psychological subtlety and smart childlike simplicity. Within the Military, …