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Lester Young (1909-1959) was born in the South of the United States, in the Mississippi State. He was inspired to play music by his family and when he was a child he learnt to play violin, trumpet and drums…
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Art Blakey (1919-1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. In the 1950s, he formed the Jazz Messengers with Horace Silver, and was the band’s drummer for 35 years. In 1984, he won the Grammy…
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Lush Life is an album released by the American singer Linda Ronstadt in late 1984. The record is the second of a jazz trilogy co-produced with conductor Nelson Riddle, and it won the 1985 Grammy Award for…
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Lee Ritenour is an American jazz guitar player born in Los Angeles, California, in 1952; he started playing guitar at the age of 8, and when he was 16 years old he recorded his first album with Mamas & Papas…
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Japanese jazz band Casiopea was formed in 1977. The members are Issei Noro on guitar (Yoshio Ichio), Minoru Mukaiya on keyboards, Akira Jimbo on drums (Godguard) and Tetsuo Sakurai on bass…
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John Coltrane (1926-1967) was an American jazz composer and saxophone player. In the early part of his career he developed his personal music style based on bebop and hard bop. His innovative interpretations made him a pioneer…
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Miles Davis was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, director, and he was among the 20th century most influential musicians. He was one of the Cool Jazz creators and a Bebop pioneer. As jazz music…
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Chet Baker, the legendary trumpeter and genius, was born on December 23, 1929, in Yale, Oklahoma, and both his parents were musicians. He was as highly esteemed as huge stars like Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie in the jazz world…
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The Afro American singer Nina Simone was born in 1933 in South Carolina, one of the states in which the racial discrimination was harder; Nina was a musical genius and since she was a child she was very determined to become the first…
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People who know Terayama Shuji, the famous Japanese writer and film director, should also know Asakawa Maki. She was born in Ishikawa, Japan, in 1942 and was a bar singer during the 1960s. Later her talent…
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