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Charlie Byrd

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Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American guitarist. [1]

93 relations: Aldemaro Romero, Andrés Segovia, Annapolis Brass Quintet, Annapolis, Maryland, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Barney Kessel, Bill Harris (musician), Billboard (magazine), Blues Sonata, Bossa nova, Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros, Brazil, Buck Clayton, Buddy Deppenschmidt, Byrd at the Gate, Byrd in the Wind, Byrd Song, Byrd's Word!, Cal Tjader, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Charlie Byrd at the Village Vanguard, Chuckatuck, Virginia, Classical guitar, Columbia Records, Concord Jazz, Concord Jazz Festival, Creed Taylor, Desafinado, Django Reinhardt, Double bass, DownBeat, Fantasy Records, Felix Grant, Fingerstyle guitar, G.I. Carmen, George Gershwin, Goin' to Kansas City, Great Guitars (band), Helen Merrill, Herb Ellis, Irving Berlin, Jazz harmony, Jazz Samba, João Gilberto, Joe Glazer, John Coltrane, Keter Betts, Knight, Latin Impressions, Latin jazz, ..., Laurindo Almeida, Les McCann, Mainstream Records, Malcolm Boyd, Mandolin, Manhattan, Maryland, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Milestone Records, Mr. Guitar (album), Mundell Lowe, Nat Adderley, Newport Jazz Festival, Once More! Charlie Byrd's Bossa Nova, Order of Rio Branco, Original Jazz Classics, Oxford University Press, Riverside Records, Romani people, Sailing, Samba, Savoy Records, Silver Spring, Maryland, Sophocles Papas, Stan Getz, Steel guitar, Suffolk, Virginia, Swing music, The Artistry of Helen Merrill, The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd, Timeless Records, Tommy Gwaltney, Unitarianism, United States Army, United States Department of State, University of Nebraska Press, Verve Records, Vince Guaraldi, Virginia Tech, William Frank Reichenbach Sr., Woody Herman, World War II, Zoot Sims. Expand index (43 more) »

Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero (March 12, 1928 – September 15, 2007) was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor.

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Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña (21 February 18932 June 1987), known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Spain.

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Annapolis Brass Quintet

The Annapolis Brass Quintet was a brass quintet founded by trumpet player David Cran and trombone player Robert Posten in 1971 as America's first full-time performing brass ensemble.

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Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County.

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Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer.

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Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

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Bill Harris (musician)

Bill Harris (October 28, 1916 – August 21, 1973) was a jazz trombonist.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Blues Sonata

Blues Sonata is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1961 and released on the Riverside label in 1963.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.

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Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros

Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Buck Clayton

Wilbur Dorsey "Buck" Clayton (November 12, 1911 – December 8, 1991) was an American jazz trumpet player who was a leading member of Count Basie’s "Old Testament" orchestra and a leader of mainstream-oriented jam session recordings in the 1950s.

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Buddy Deppenschmidt

Buddy (William Henry) Deppenschmidt (born February 16, 1936, Philadelphia, Pa.) is an American jazz drummer.

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Byrd at the Gate

Byrd at the Gate is a live album by the American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd of tracks recorded at The Village Gate in 1963 and released on the Riverside label.

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Byrd in the Wind

Byrd in the Wind is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1959 and released on the Riverside label in 1963.

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Byrd Song

Byrd Song (subtitled Charlie Byrd with Voices) is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and released on the Riverside label.

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Byrd's Word!

Byrd's Word! is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd with tracks recorded in 1958 and released on the Riverside label in 1962.

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Cal Tjader

Callen Radcliffe "Cal" Tjader, Jr. (July 16, 1925 – May 5, 1982) was an American Latin jazz musician, known as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician.

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Carlos Barbosa-Lima

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro Barbosa Lima (born December 17, 1944) is a classical and jazz guitarist from Brazil.

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Charlie Byrd at the Village Vanguard

Charlie Byrd at the Village Vanguard is a live album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1961 and released on the Riverside label in 1963.

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Chuckatuck, Virginia

Chuckatuck is a neighborhood of the independent city of Suffolk, Virginia, United States.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar (also known as concert guitar, classical acoustic, nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is the member of the guitar family used in classical music.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Concord Jazz

Concord Jazz is a record company and label created in 1973 by Carl Jefferson, the founder of Concord Records and former owner of Jefferson Motors Lincoln Mercury dealership in Concord, CA.

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Concord Jazz Festival

The Concord Jazz Festival is an annual event that was established in 1969 in Concord, California.

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Creed Taylor

Creed Taylor (born May 13, 1929) is an American record producer, best known for his work with CTI Records, which he founded in 1968.

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Desafinado

"Desafinado," a Portuguese word (usually rendered into English as "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key"), is the title of a bossa nova song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça.

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Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt (or; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) stage name Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist, musician and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is an American record company and label founded by brothers Max and Sol Weiss in 1949.

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Felix Grant

Felix Grant (1918–1993) was a radio presenter who specialized in playing jazz music during his long career in Washington, D.C. (1945 to 1993), primarily at radio station WMAL.

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Fingerstyle guitar

Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick").

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G.I. Carmen

G.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Goin' to Kansas City

Goin' to Kansas City is an album by American jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton with Tommy Gwaltney's Kansas City 9 featuring tracks recorded in late 1960 for the Riverside label.

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Great Guitars (band)

Great Guitars was a supergroup formed by jazz guitarists Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, and Barney Kessel in 1973.

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Helen Merrill

Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic July 21, 1930) is an American jazz vocalist.

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Herb Ellis

Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin (Израиль Моисеевич Бейлин) Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.

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Jazz harmony

Jazz harmony is the theory and practice of how chords are used in jazz music.

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Jazz Samba

Jazz Samba is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd released by Verve Records in 1962.

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João Gilberto

João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto (June 10, 1931), is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Joe Glazer

Joe Glazer (June 19, 1918 – September 19, 2006), closely associated with labor unions and often referred to as "labor's troubadour," was an American folk musician who recorded more than thirty albums over the course of his career.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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Keter Betts

William Thomas "Keter" Betts (July 22, 1928 – August 6, 2005) was an American jazz double bassist.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.

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Latin Impressions

Latin Impressions is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.

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Latin jazz

Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms.

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Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres.

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Les McCann

Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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Mainstream Records

Mainstream Records was an American record company and independent record label founded by music producer Bob Shad in 1964.

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Malcolm Boyd

Malcolm Boyd (June 8, 1923 – February 27, 2015) was an American Episcopal priest and author.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Milestone Records

Milestone Records is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City.

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Mr. Guitar (album)

Mr.

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Mundell Lowe

James Mundell Lowe (April 21, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a session musician.

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Nat Adderley

Nat Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Once More! Charlie Byrd's Bossa Nova

Once More! Charlie Byrd's Bossa Nova is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1963 and released on the Riverside label.

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Order of Rio Branco

The Order of Rio Branco (Ordem de Rio Branco) is an honorific order of Brazil instituted by decree 51.697 of February 5, 1963.

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Original Jazz Classics

Original Jazz Classics (or OJC) is a record label that was started in 1983 as an imprint of Fantasy Records.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Riverside Records

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label.

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Romani people

The Romani (also spelled Romany), or Roma, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group, living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Sindh regions of modern-day India and Pakistan.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Samba

Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style, with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions, particularly of Angola and the Congo, through the samba de roda genre of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, from which it derived.

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Savoy Records

Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey.

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Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring is a city located inside the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Sophocles Papas

Sophocles Papas (1893 or 1894 – 26 February 1986) was an internationally renowned classical guitar pedagogue and music publisher.

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Steel guitar

Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument.

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Suffolk, Virginia

Suffolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The Artistry of Helen Merrill

The Artistry of Helen Merrill is an album released by American vocalist Helen Merrill in 1965 on the Mainstream label.

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The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd

The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label in 1963.

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Timeless Records

Timeless Records is a jazz record label from The Netherlands.

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Tommy Gwaltney

Thomas O. "Tommy" Gwaltney (born February 28, 1921, Norfolk, Virginia) (d. February 11, 2003, Virginia Beach, Virginia)is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism (from Latin unitas "unity, oneness", from unus "one") is historically a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin tres "three") which defines God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.

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University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press, also known as UNP, was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Vince Guaraldi

Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976), born Vincent Anthony Dellaglio, i-ITALY, December 24, 2010 was an American jazz pianist noted for his innovative compositions and arrangements and for composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip, as well as his performances on piano as a member of Cal Tjader's late 50s ensemble and his own solo career which included the radio hit Cast Your Fate to the Wind.

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Virginia Tech

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech, and traditionally known as VPI since 1896, is an American public, land-grant, research university with a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, educational facilities in six regions statewide, and a study-abroad site in Lugano, Switzerland.

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William Frank Reichenbach Sr.

William Frank Reichenbach Sr. (December 18, 1923 – May 16, 2008) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist, who co-developed the jazz-samba drumming style.

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Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zoot Sims

John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto (and, later, soprano) saxophone.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Byrd

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