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Jump blues
Jump blues is an up-tempo blues usually played by small groups and featuring horns. It was very popular in the 1940s and was called "rock and roll" in the 1950s.
Jump evolved from big bands such as those of Lionel Hampton and Lucky Millinder. These early 1940s bands produced musicians such as Louis...
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Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Setzer was born in Massapequa, New York. Beginning in January 1980, he fronted the popular rockabilly band, Stray Cats. After performing from New York to...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1959 (age 50 years)
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Louis Prima
Louis Prima (7 December 1910 – 24 August 1978) was an Italian-American entertainer, singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1910
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1978 (age 67 years)
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Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1908
Date of death:
- Feb 4, 1975 (age 66 years)
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T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker (May 28, 1910 — March 16, 1975) was an American blues guitarist, singer, pianist and songwriter who was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar. His electric guitar solos were among the first heard on modern blues...
Date of birth:
- May 28, 1910
Date of death:
- Mar 16, 1975 (age 64 years)
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Illinois Jacquet
Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet (October 31, 1922–July 22, 2004) was a jazz tenor saxophonist most famous for his solo on "Flying Home", recognized as the first R&B; sax solo.
Although he was a pioneer of the honking tenor sax that became a regular...
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1922
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 2004 (age 81 years)
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra
The Brian Setzer Orchestra (sometimes going by the acronym BSO) is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1990 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer. The group had success covering Louis Prima's "Jump Jive an' Wail", which appeared in Prima's 1957...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Al Killian
Al Killian (October 15, 1916 – September 5, 1950) was an American jazz trumpet player and occasional bandleader during the big band era, also known for playing jump blues and East Coast blues. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Killian was considered one...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1916
Date of death:
- Sep 5, 1950 (age 33 years)
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Jimmy McCracklin
Jimmy McCracklin (born August 13, 1921, St. Louis Missouri) is an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contains West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B.; Over a career that has spanned seven decades, he says he has written almost a...
Date of birth:
- Aug 13, 1921 (age 88 years)
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Arnett Cobb
Arnett Cobb (10 August 1918 – 24 March 1989) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Cobb was born Arnette Cleophus Cobbs in Houston, Texas. His musical career began with the local bands of Chester Boone, from 1934 to 1936, and Milt Larkin, from...
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1918
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1989 (age 70 years)
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Johnny Shines
Johnny Shines (April 26, 1915 – April 20, 1992) was an American blues singer and guitarist. According to the music journalist Tony Russell, "Shines was that rare being, a blues artist who overcame age and rustiness to make music that stood up beside...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1915
Date of death:
- Apr 20, 1992 (age 77 years)
Jay McShann
Jay McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006) was an American Grammy Award-nominated blues, mainstream jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer.
During the 1940s, McShann was at the forefront of blues and hard bop jazz musicians mainly...
Date of birth:
- Jan 12, 1916
Date of death:
- Dec 7, 2006 (age 90 years)
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Willie Dixon
William James "Willie" Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was a well-known American blues double-bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. His songs, including "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil", "Spoonful", ...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1915
Date of death:
- Jan 29, 1992 (age 76 years)
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Atomic Fireballs
The Atomic Fireballs is a Detroit band led by vocalist/songwriter John Bunkley. The group was formed during 1996 and is composed of Bunkley on vocals, James Bostek on trumpet, Tony Buccilli on trombone, Duke Kingins on guitar, Shawn Scaggs on double...
Wynonie Harris
Wynonie Harris (August 24, 1915 – June 14, 1969), born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs featuring humorous, with often ribald lyrics. With fifteen Top 10 hits between 1946 and 1952, Harris...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1915
Date of death:
- Jun 14, 1969 (age 53 years)
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Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B; alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after a lye-laced straightener destroyed his hair.
Vinson was born in Houston...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1917
Date of death:
- Jul 2, 1988 (age 70 years)
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Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came...
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1911
Date of death:
- Nov 24, 1985 (age 74 years)
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Alberta Adams
Alberta Adams (born Roberta Louise Osborne, c 1920, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Detroit blues, jump blues, and Chicago blues singer. She was raised in Detroit, Michigan by a relative, and began performing during the 1940s in a club on Hastings...
Date of birth:
- 1920 (age 90 years)
Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat "King" Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1919
Date of death:
- Feb 15, 1965 (age 45 years)
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Billy Wright
Billy Wright (May 21, 1932 — October 27, 1991) was an American jump blues singer.
Billy Wright was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout his career, he was known as the "Prince of the Blues." He was a key figure in Atlanta blues after World War II...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1932
Date of death:
- Oct 27, 1991 (age 59 years)
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Mikael Santana
Mikael Santana (born December 31, 1957) is an American blues harmonica player/singer/songwriter who blends the Chicago blues style with jump blues and West Coast swing. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Mikael Santana was born in Lakeland,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1957 (age 52 years)
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The Head Cat
The Head Cat is an American rockabilly supergroup formed by vocalist Lemmy (of Motorhead), drummer Slim Jim Phantom (of The Stray Cats) and guitarist Danny B. Harvey (of Lonesome Spurs and The Rockats).
Head Cat was formed after recording the Elvis...
