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Bob James is a pianist and keyboardist and was born in Marshall, Missouri, on December 25, 1938. He started playing the piano at age of 4. In 1962 Quincy Jones signed him to…
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Scott Hamilton (1954), is an American tenor saxophone player; a talented performer, he was born in Rhode Island and started performing at the age of sixteen. He moved to New York in 1976 and later played with clarinet master Benny…
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Lee Ritenour was born in 1952 Los Angeles, California. He started playing guitar at the age of eight, and decided to pursue a career in music four years later. He loved Jazz, studied music at the University of Southern California and was…
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Duke Ellington (1899-1974),born in Washington, DC, was a great jazz composer, pianist and conductor. His music covered Jazz, Blues, Gospel, soundtracks, Pop and Classical. He led the orchestra for more than 50 years…
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Sonny Rollins (born in 1930) is considered one of the most important and influential Saxophone players in the history of Jazz Music. In his 70 years career he has recorded over 70 albums and among…
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Wes Montgomery (1923-1968), the most impostant guitarist in the history of jazz music, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. His age just happened to connect Swing and Bebop inheritance, and later Hard-bop and Post-bop: during…
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Lee Konitz (October 13, 1927) was born in a Jewish family in Chicago. When he was a little kid he liked to listen to the radio broadcast with his brother. The famous clarinettist Benny Goodman deeply influenced him…
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Dexter Gordon (1923 – 1990) was born in Los Angeles and is one of the outstanding Blue Note artists; he was also an actor His sound is easy to distinguish, and it’s very thick and solid; it’s hard to find similar style and color. He was skilled…
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Wynton Marsalis is a very talented trumpet player born in 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a musical family: his father Ellis Marsalis Jr. was a jazz pianist. Marsalis is also the Jazz Art Director of the Lincoln Center in New York City…
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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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