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Verve Records
Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records (founded in 1946) and Norgran Records (founded in 1953), and material which had been licensed to Mercury...
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter of Irish heritage. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became...
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- Aug 25, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique...
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- Dec 21, 1940
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- Dec 4, 1993 (age 52 years)
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George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B;, and scat singer. This one-time child prodigy topped the...
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- Mar 22, 1943 (age 66 years)
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John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to...
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- Aug 22, 1917
Date of death:
- Jun 21, 2001 (age 83 years)
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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, CC, CQ, O.Ont. (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty. He...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1925
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 2007 (age 82 years)
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The Righteous Brothers
The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. They recorded from 1963 through 1975, and continued to perform until Hatfield's death in 2003. Their emotive vocal stylings were sometimes dubbed "blue-eyed soul".
Medley...
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- 1962
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- Nov 5, 2003
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was an American experimental rock band formed in New York City, New York. First active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although never...
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- 1965
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- 1973
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist and composer. He is regarded not only as one of the greatest living jazz musicians, but also as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. His music...
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- Apr 12, 1940 (age 69 years)
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader.
Duke Ellington became one of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music, and is largely recognized as one of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1899
Date of death:
- May 24, 1974 (age 75 years)
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Norman Granz
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 in Los Angeles, USA – November 22, 2001 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an American jazz music impresario and producer.
Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz, especially from about 1947 to 1960. He was the founder...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1918
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 2001 (age 83 years)
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella", and the "First Lady of Song", was an American jazz vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing and intonation,...
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- Apr 25, 1917
Date of death:
- Jun 15, 1996 (age 79 years)
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1915
Date of death:
- Jul 17, 1959 (age 44 years)
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (pronounced /gɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer.
Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern...
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- Oct 21, 1917
Date of death:
- Jan 6, 1993 (age 75 years)
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Parker, with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, was one of the most influential of jazz musicians. Parker acquired the nickname "Yardbird" early...
Date of birth:
- Aug 29, 1920
Date of death:
- Mar 12, 1955 (age 34 years)
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Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer.
Born Anita Belle Colton, O'Day was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer"....
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1919
Date of death:
- Nov 23, 2006 (age 87 years)
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto players to rise to prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1928
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 1964 (age 36 years)
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Janis Ian
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, April 7, 1951) is an American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumental musician, columnist, and science fiction fan-turned-author. She had a highly successful singing career in the 1960s and 1970s, and has continued...
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- Apr 7, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Larry Norman
Larry David Norman (April 8, 1947 – February 24, 2008) was an American Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and humorist. Norman's recordings are noted for their Christian and social subject matter, and he is often described as...
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- Apr 8, 1947
Date of death:
- Feb 24, 2008 (age 60 years)
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Bud Powell
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966 in New York City) was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other...
Date of birth:
- Sep 27, 1924
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1966 (age 41 years)
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Bill Evans
William John Evans (better known as Bill Evans) (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, ...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1929
Date of death:
- Sep 15, 1980 (age 51 years)
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Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music vocalist and entertainer. Her many vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career. As a result, she has earned...
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- Jul 15, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker (IPA: [ˈmeɪsiːoʊ]) (born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of...
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- Feb 14, 1943 (age 66 years)
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Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (b. Witbank, South Africa, April 4, 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer.
He began playing the gramophone at the age of 2. Later singing and playing piano as a child. At age 14,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1939 (age 70 years)
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Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the Empress of Soul, is an American R&B;/soul singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author. She is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the...
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- May 28, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Joe Williams
Joe Williams (December 12, 1918 – March 29, 1999) was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards.
Williams was born Joseph Goreed in the small farming town of Cordele, Georgia. His...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1918
Date of death:
- Mar 29, 1999 (age 80 years)
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Talk Talk
Talk Talk were a British musical group that were active from 1981 to 1991. The group had a string of international hit singles including; "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in...
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Richie Havens
Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941) is an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style (in open tuning), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969...
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- Jan 21, 1941 (age 69 years)
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Wes Montgomery
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (6 March 1923 - 15 June 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. He is generally considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1923
Date of death:
- Jun 15, 1968 (age 45 years)
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Loreena McKennitt
Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist and pianist most famous for writing, recording and performing world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1957 (age 52 years)
Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 - July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1907
Date of death:
- Jul 12, 2003 (age 95 years)
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Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum (born 20 August 1979) is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and drummer.
Cullum was born at Rochford Hospital in Romford, Essex. He was brought up in Hullavington, Wiltshire, and educated at the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1979 (age 30 years)
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz musicians of his generation. His efforts have arguably made him a household name amongst jazz fans around...
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- Aug 25, 1933 (age 76 years)
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 — January 30, 1982) was a country blues guitarist, from Houston, Texas, United States.
Born in Centerville, Texas, Hopkins' childhood was immersed in the sounds of the blues and he developed a deeper...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1912
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1982 (age 69 years)
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Stan Getz
Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky (born February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia – died June 6, 1991 in Malibu, California), usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his...
Date of birth:
- Feb 2, 1927
Date of death:
- Jun 6, 1991 (age 64 years)
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Cal Tjader
Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader (July 16, 1925–May 5, 1982) was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1925
Date of death:
- May 5, 1982 (age 56 years)
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Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her contralto vocals.
In 1993, Krall released her first album, Stepping Out, which she recorded with John Clayton and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 16, 1964 (age 45 years)
Natalie Cole
Natalie Maria Cole (born February 6, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and performer. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B; star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more pop and jazz oriented musical style in the early...
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- Feb 6, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Erroll Garner
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad Misty, has become a jazz standard. Allmusic.com calls him "one of the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1921
Date of death:
- Jan 2, 1977 (age 55 years)
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Johnny Smith
Johnny Smith, (born John Henry Smith, Jr. on June 25, 1922 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American cool jazz and mainstream jazz guitarist, although he does not consider himself to be a musician in the idiom.
During the Depression, Smith's family...
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- Jun 25, 1922 (age 87 years)
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Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 - June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Lima, Ohio, he studied music at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University before playing in Detroit at the beginning of his career.
From a very...
Date of birth:
- Apr 24, 1937
Date of death:
- Jun 30, 2001 (age 64 years)
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Art Porter, Jr.
Arthur L. 'Art' Porter, Jr., (3 August 1961 - 23 November 1996), was an American jazz saxophonist. He was the son of legendary jazz musician Art Porter, Sr., as well as the namesake of "The Art Porter Bill".
Art Porter, Jr. was born in Little Rock,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1961
Date of death:
- Nov 23, 1996 (age 35 years)
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Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian singer best known for her samba and bossa nova music, most famously as the vocalist on the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".
Astrud Gilberto was born as Astrud Weinert, the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 29, 1940 (age 69 years)
David Sanborn
David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B.; He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Brian Blade
Brian Blade (born July 25, 1970) in Shreveport, Louisiana is an American jazz drummer, composer, singer/songwriter and session musician.
Blade made his first recorded appearances as a sideman with Kenny Garrett and Joshua Redman and continued to...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Paul Chambers
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was one of the most influential jazz bassists of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1935
Date of death:
- Jan 4, 1969 (age 33 years)
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Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay (born Nell Marie McKay on 13 April 1982 ) is an English-born American singer-songwriter, actress, and former stand-up comedienne, noted for her critically acclaimed debut album Get Away from Me and for her Broadway debut in The...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1982 (age 27 years)
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Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.
Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings....
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1927 (age 82 years)
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Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.
Burrell was born in Detroit, Michigan to a musical family...
Date of birth:
- Jul 31, 1931 (age 78 years)
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John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin may refer to:
Date of birth:
- Jan 4, 1942 (age 68 years)
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Dory Previn
Dory Previn, née Dorothy Veronica Langan (born 22 October 1925 or 1929), is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet.
During the late 1950s and 1960s she was a lyricist for motion picture songs, and with her first husband André Previn...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1925 (age 84 years)
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Bruce Palmer
Bruce Palmer (September 9, 1946 – October 1, 2004) was a Canadian musician most famous for playing bass guitar in the influential folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield.
Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Palmer...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1946
Date of death:
- Oct 1, 2004 (age 58 years)
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Bebel Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto (born Isabel Gilberto de Oliveira on May 12, 1966 in New York City) is an American-born Grammy Award-nominated Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1966 (age 43 years)
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Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri (Greek: Nάνα Μούσχουρη), born as Ioanna Mouskouri (Greek: Ιωάννα Μούσχουρη) on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a singer who is confirmed to have sold over 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1934 (age 75 years)
Roy Hargrove
Roy Anthony Hargrove (born October 16, 1969) is an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997, and in 2002. Hargrove has played primarily with jazz musicians with stellar...
Date of birth:
- Oct 16, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Eleftheria Arvanitaki is a Greek pop folk singer of Icarian descent, born October 17, 1957 in Piraeus.
Arvanitaki started her career in singing in 1980, by joining the group "Opisthodromiki Kompania" / "Οπισθοδρομική Κομπανία" (Retrograde Company)...
Date of birth:
- Oct 16, 1957 (age 52 years)
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Christian McBride
Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors. In the jazz...
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- May 31, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones, May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Her devotion to the jazz idiom was such that her fellow vocalist Carmen...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1929
Date of death:
- Sep 26, 1998 (age 69 years)
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The Mothers of Invention
The Mothers of Invention was an American band active from 1964 to 1975. They mainly performed works by and were the original recording group of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa, although other members have an occasional writing credit.
Initially,...
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Ronnie Earl
Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath, March 10, 1953, Glasgow, Scotland, is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.
Earl collected blues, jazz, rock and soul records while growing up. He studied American History at C.W. Post College on Long...
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- 1953 (age 57 years)
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Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln (born Anna Marie Wooldridge on August 6, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln is unusual in that she writes and performs her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences.
She...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1930 (age 79 years)
