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Gene Ammons

Index Gene Ammons

Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. [1]

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Bossa Nova, Barry Harris, Bebop, Ben Kynard, Bennie Green, Benny Powell, Bernard Purdie, Big Bad Jug, Bill English (musician), Bill Green (musician), Billy Butler (guitarist), Billy Cobham discography, Billy Higgins, Billy James (musician), Billy Mitchell (jazz musician), Blue Gene (Gene Ammons album), Blue Groove, Blues Up & Down, Bob Bushnell, Bob Cranshaw, Bob Weinstock, Bobby Bryant (musician), Born to Be Blue (Mel Tormé song), Boss, Boss Soul!, Boss Tenor, Boss Tenors, Boss Tenors in Orbit!, Brasswind, Britt Woodman, Bross Townsend, Brother Jack Meets the Boss, Brother Jug!, Bucket O' Grease, ..., Bucky Pizzarelli discography, Buddy Childers, Buster Williams, But Not for Me (song), Cadet Records, Calvin Carter, Can Anyone Explain? (No! No! No!), Can't We Be Friends?, Canadian Sunset, Cannonball Adderley discography, Cara Mia, Carol Kaye, Cat Anderson, Cándido Camero, Cecil Payne, Cedar Walton, Charles Davis (saxophonist), Charles Greenlee (musician), Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert, Charlie Persip, Chess Records, Chicago Concert, Christopher Columbus (jazz song), Chronological Classics complete discography, Chuck Rainey, Clark Terry, Claude McLin, Cleveland Eaton, Close Your Eyes (Bernice Petkere song), Colin Bailey (drummer), Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep), Count Your Blessings (Richard Morgan & Edith Temple song), Damn! (Jimmy Smith album), David Axelrod (musician), Dennis Budimir, Dexter Gordon, Dig Him!, Dodo Marmarosa, Dolo Coker, Don Patterson (organist), Donald Byrd, Dorothy Donegan, Doug Watkins, DownBeat, Duke Jordan, DuSable High School, Earl Coleman (singer), Earl Hines, Earl May, Earthquation, Ed Shaughnessy, Ed Thigpen, Ed Wiley Jr., Eddie Harris, Ellery Eskelin, Elmo Hope, Ernie Royal, Ernie Shepard, Ernie Watts, Etta Jones, Eugene Wright, Exactly Like You (song), For All We Know (1934 song), Four (composition), Four Dimensions (Don Patterson album), Frank Foster (musician), Frank Wess, Freddie Redd, Free Again (Gene Ammons album), Funky (Gene Ammons album), Garnett Brown, Gary Bartz, Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux, Gene Ammons in Sweden, George Barrow (musician), George Coleman, George Duvivier, George Freeman (guitarist), Georgie Fame, God Bless Jug and Sonny, God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song), Goodbye (Gene Ammons album), Got My Own, Groove Blues, Groovin' with Jug, Grover Mitchell, Hampton Hawes, Hank Jones, Harold Ousley, Harold Vick, Headed and Gutted, Henderson Chambers, Here's That Rainy Day, Herman Riley, Horace Parlan, Horn to Horn, Houston Person, Howard McGhee, I Mean You (album), I Remember You (1941 song), I'll Close My Eyes (song), I'm Glad There Is You, Idrees Sulieman, Idris Muhammad, Ike Day, Illinois, Israel Crosby, J. 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A. K. Salim

Ahmad Khatab Salim or Ahmad Kharab Salim (born Albert Atkinson on July 28, 1922) was an American jazz composer, and arranger.

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Addison Farmer

Addison Gerald Farmer (August 21, 1928, Council Bluffs, Iowa – February 20, 1963, New York City) was an American jazz bassist.

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Al Aarons

Albert Aarons (March 23, 1932 – November 17, 2015) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Albert Ammons

Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 3, 1949) was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s.

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Albert Heath

Albert "Tootie" Heath (born May 31, 1935) is an American jazz hard bop drummer, the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the double-bassist Percy Heath.

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All Star Sessions

All Star Sessions is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded between 1950 and 1955 and released on the Prestige label.

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Amina Claudine Myers

Amina Claudine Myers (born March 21, 1942) is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger.

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Ammons

Ammons is a surname.

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Angel Eyes (1946 song)

"Angel Eyes" is a 1946 popular song composed by Matt Dennis, with lyrics by Earl Brent.

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Angel Eyes (Gene Ammons album)

Angel Eyes is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded in 1960 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1965.

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Answer Me, My Love

"Answer Me, My Love" is a popular song, originally titled "Mütterlein" with German lyrics, by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch.

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April 1925

The following events occurred in April 1925.

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Argo Records

Argo Records was a record label in Chicago that was established in 1955 as a division of Chess Records.

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Art Blakey discography

Art Blakey was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Art Davis

Art Davis (December 5, 1934 – July 29, 2007) was a double-bassist, known for his work with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner and Max Roach.

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Art Taylor

Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. (April 6, 1929 – February 6, 1995) was an American jazz drummer who "helped define the sound of modern jazz drumming".

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Bad! Bossa Nova

Bad! Bossa Nova is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.

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Barry Harris

Barry Doyle Harris (born December 15, 1929) is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and educator.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Ben Kynard

Ben D. Kynard (February 28, 1920 Eureka Springs, Arkansas - July 5, 2012 Kansas City) was an American jazz saxophonist (alto and baritone saxophone)..

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Bennie Green

Bennie Green (April 16, 1923 – March 23, 1977) was an American jazz trombonist.

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Benny Powell

Benny Powell (March 1, 1930 – June 26, 2010) was an African-American jazz trombonist.

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Bernard Purdie

Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, considered an influential and innovative funk musician.

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Big Bad Jug

Big Bad Jug is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.

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Bill English (musician)

Bill English (born August 27, 1925, New York City) is an American jazz drummer.

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Bill Green (musician)

William Earnest "Bill" Green (February 28, 1925, Kansas City, Kansas - July 29, 1996, Los Angeles) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist.

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Billy Butler (guitarist)

William Butler Jr. (December 15, 1924 – March 20, 1991) was an American soul jazz guitarist.

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Billy Cobham discography

The discography of fusion and Jazz drummer Billy Cobham includes solo, collaborative, and work playing on other artists' albums.

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Billy Higgins

Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer.

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Billy James (musician)

William "Billy" James (April 20, 1936 - November 20, 2009) was an American jazz drummer.

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Billy Mitchell (jazz musician)

William Melvin Mitchell (November 3, 1926 – April 18, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Blue Gene (Gene Ammons album)

Blue Gene is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1958 and released on the Prestige label.

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Blue Groove

Blue Groove is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1961 but not released on the Prestige label until 1982.

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Blues Up & Down

Blues Up & Down is an album by saxophonists Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin recorded in 1961 and released on the Jazzland label.

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Bob Bushnell

Bob Bushnell (born 1926 in 4834 Brown Street in West Philadelphia) is a jazz bass player and guitarist.

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Bob Cranshaw

Melbourne Robert "Bob" Cranshaw (December 3, 1932 – November 2, 2016) was an American jazz bassist.

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Bob Weinstock

Bob Weinstock (October 2, 1928 – January 14, 2006) was an American record producer best known for his label Prestige Records, established in 1949, which was responsible for many significant jazz recordings during his more than two decades operating the firm.

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Bobby Bryant (musician)

Bobby Bryant (May 19, 1934 – June 10, 1998) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.

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Born to Be Blue (Mel Tormé song)

"Born to Be Blue" is a 1946 jazz standard.

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Boss

Boss may refer to.

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Boss Soul!

Boss Soul! is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1961 and released on the Prestige label.

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Boss Tenor

Boss Tenor is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1960 and released on the Prestige label.

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Boss Tenors

Boss Tenors (subtitled Straight Ahead from Chicago August 1961) is an album by saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded in Chicago in 1961 and originally released on the Verve label.

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Boss Tenors in Orbit!

Boss Tenors in Orbit! is a 1962 studio album by American jazz tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons.

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Brasswind

Brasswind is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in late 1973 and early 1974 and released on the Prestige label.

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Britt Woodman

Britt Woodman (June 4, 1920 in Los Angeles – October 13, 2000 in Hawthorne, California) was a jazz trombonist.

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Bross Townsend

Bross Elvie Townsend, Jr. (October 18, 1933 – May 12, 2003) was an American jazz and blues pianist.

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Brother Jack Meets the Boss

Brother Jack Meets the Boss is an album by organist Jack McDuff and saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.

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Brother Jug!

Brother Jug! is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label.

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Bucket O' Grease

Bucket O' Grease is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded in late 1966 and released on the Limelight label.

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Bucky Pizzarelli discography

The following discography lists albums by Bucky Pizzarelli.

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Buddy Childers

Marion "Buddy" Childers (February 12, 1926 – May 24, 2007) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and ensemble leader.

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Buster Williams

Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams (born April 17, 1942 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American jazz bassist.

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But Not for Me (song)

"But Not for Me" is a popular song, composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

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Cadet Records

Cadet Records was an American record label which began as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records.

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Calvin Carter

Calvin T. Carter (May 27, 1925 – July 9, 1986) was an African American record producer, record label manager and songwriter of jazz and pop songs.

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Can Anyone Explain? (No! No! No!)

"Can Anyone Explain? (No! No! No!)" is a popular song written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss and published in 1950.

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Can't We Be Friends?

"Can't We Be Friends?" is a 1929 song with lyrics by Paul James and music by Kay Swift, introduced on Broadway in The Little Show by Libby Holman.

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Canadian Sunset

"Canadian Sunset" is a popular song with music by jazz pianist Eddie Heywood and lyrics by Norman Gimbel.

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Cannonball Adderley discography

This discography of jazz saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley includes albums released under his own name and albums to which he made significant contributions.

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Cara Mia

"Cara Mia" is a popular song published in 1954 that became a UK number 1 and US number 10 hit and Gold record for English singer David Whitfield in 1954 and a #4 hit for the American rock group Jay and the Americans in 1965.

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Carol Kaye

Carol Kaye (born March 24, 1935) is an American musician, known as one of the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists, playing on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years.

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Cat Anderson

William Alonzo "Cat" Anderson (September 12, 1916 – April 29, 1981) was an American jazz trumpeter known for his long period as a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra and for his wide range (more than five octaves), especially his playing in the higher registers.

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Cándido Camero

Cándido de Guerra Camero (born April 22, 1921), also known simply as Cándido, is a prolific Cuban conga and bongo player.

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Cecil Payne

Cecil Payne (December 14, 1922 – November 27, 2007) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn, New York.

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Cedar Walton

Cedar Anthony Walton, Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist.

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Charles Davis (saxophonist)

Charles Davis (May 20, 1933 – July 15, 2016) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Charles Greenlee (musician)

Charles "Majeed" or "Majid" Greenlee (April or May 24, 1927 – January 23, 1993) was an American jazz trombonist who worked extensively with Archie Shepp.

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Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert

Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert is a live album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded at the Philharmonic hall of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1972 and released on the Columbia label.

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Charlie Persip

Charli Persip (born July 26, 1929) is an American jazz drummer.

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Chess Records

Chess Records was an American record company, founded in 1950 in Chicago and specializing in blues and rhythm and blues.

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Chicago Concert

Chicago Concert is a live album by saxophonists James Moody and Gene Ammons recorded in Chicago in 1971 and released on the Prestige label.

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Christopher Columbus (jazz song)

Christopher Columbus is an American jazz song composed by Chu Berry with lyrics by Andy Razaf.

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Chronological Classics complete discography

Chronological Classics was a French compact disc reissue label.

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Chuck Rainey

Charles Walter "Chuck" Rainey III (born June 17, 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States) is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones.

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Clark Terry

Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.

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Claude McLin

Claude McLin (born December 27, 1925 in Chicago - died July 21, 1995 in Los Angeles) was a jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Cleveland Eaton

Cleveland Josephus "Cleve" Eaton II (born August 31, 1939) is an American jazz double bassist, producer, arranger, composer, publisher, and head of his own record company from Fairfield, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham.

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Close Your Eyes (Bernice Petkere song)

"Close Your Eyes" is a popular song written by American composer Bernice Petkere.

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Colin Bailey (drummer)

Colin James Bailey (born July 9, 1934) is British-born American jazz drummer.

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Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)

"Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin and used in the 1954 movie White Christmas.

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Count Your Blessings (Richard Morgan & Edith Temple song)

"Count Your Blessings" is a song by Reginald Morgan & Edith Temple, c.1946.

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Damn! (Jimmy Smith album)

Damn! is a 1996 album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith.

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David Axelrod (musician)

David Axelrod (April 17, 1931 – February 5, 2017) was an American composer, arranger, and producer.

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Dennis Budimir

Dennis Matthew Budimir (born June 20, 1938) is an American jazz and rock guitarist.

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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Dig Him!

Dig Him! is an album by saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded in 1961 and originally released on the Argo label in 1962.

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Dodo Marmarosa

Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa (December 12, 1925 – September 17, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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Dolo Coker

Charles Mitchell "Dolo" Coker (November 16, 1927 – April 13, 1983) was a jazz pianist and composer who recorded four albums for Xanadu Records and extensively as a sideman, for artists like Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Lou Donaldson, Art Pepper, Philly Joe Jones, and Dexter Gordon.

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Don Patterson (organist)

Don Patterson (July 22, 1936, Columbus, Ohio - February 10, 1988, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz organist.

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Donald Byrd

Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter.

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Dorothy Donegan

Dorothy Donegan (April 26, 1922 – May 19, 1998) was an American jazz pianist and vocalist, primarily known for performing in the stride piano and boogie-woogie style.

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Doug Watkins

Douglas Watkins (March 2, 1934 – February 5, 1962) was an American jazz double bassist from Detroit.

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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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Duke Jordan

Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan (April 1, 1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American jazz pianist.

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DuSable High School

Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School is a public 4–year high school campus located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Earl Coleman (singer)

Earl Coleman August 12, 1925 – July 12, 1995) was a jazz singer. Coleman was born in Port Huron, Michigan. When he was a child, he lived with his mother, grandmother, aunt, and step-grandfather. After moving to Indianapolis in 1939, he sang with Ernie Fields and Bardu Ali. He joined the Jay McShann band in 1943 and later sang with Earl Hines, the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, and King Kolax. He then went with McShann to California and recorded with Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, and Max Roach in 1948. In 1954, he worked with Gene Ammons and recorded with Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce. In 1956 he was with Sonny Rollins. By 1960 he was recording as a leader and performed with Gerald Wilson. In 1962 he was with Don Byas in Paris and in the mid-60s with Billy Taylor and Frank Foster. By 1980–86 he was recording with organist Shirley Scott. Coleman was married to actress Marilyn Coleman; they had two children together, a son, Kevin, and a daughter, Kia; he also had a stepdaughter, Marci Allen-Koutsialis, from his wife's previous marriage to jazz percussionist George Allen. Marilyn died on June 25, 2013.

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Earl Hines

Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.

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Earl May

Earl Charles Barrington May (September 27, 1927 - January 4, 2008) was an American jazz bassist.

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Earthquation

Earthquation is an album by the American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1994 and released on the Japanese DIW label.

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Ed Shaughnessy

Edwin Thomas Shaughnessy (January 29, 1929 – May 24, 2013) was a swing music and jazz drummer best known for his long association with Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

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Ed Thigpen

Edmund Leonard Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965.

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Ed Wiley Jr.

Ed Wiley Jr. (March 14, 1930 – September 27, 2010) was an American tenor saxophonist whose big sound and soulful expression helped lay the foundation for early blues, R&B and what would later come to be known as “rock-and-roll” music.

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Eddie Harris

Eddie Harris (October 20, 1934 – November 5, 1996) was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone.

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Ellery Eskelin

Ellery Eskelin (born August 16, 1959) is an American tenor saxophonist, born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, from the age of two.

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Elmo Hope

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Ernie Royal

Ernest Andrew "Ernie" Royal (June 2, 1921 in Los Angeles, California – March 16, 1983 in New York City) was a jazz trumpeter.

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Ernie Shepard

Ernest Shepard, Jr. (July 19, 1916, Beaumont, Texas – November 23, 1965, Hamburg, Germany) was an American jazz double-bassist and vocalist.

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Ernie Watts

Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone.

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Etta Jones

Etta Jones (November 25, 1928 – October 16, 2001) was an American jazz singer.

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Eugene Wright

Eugene Joseph Wright (born May 29, 1923), nicknamed The Senator, is an American jazz bassist, best known for his work as a member of The Dave Brubeck Quartet, in particular on the group's most famous album, Time Out (1959), with pianist Brubeck, drummer Joe Morello and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond.

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Exactly Like You (song)

"Exactly Like You" is a popular song, with music written by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and published in 1930.

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For All We Know (1934 song)

"For All We Know" is a popular song published in 1934.

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Four (composition)

"Four" is a 1954 jazz standard.

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Four Dimensions (Don Patterson album)

Four Dimensions is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in 1967 and released on the Prestige label.

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Frank Foster (musician)

Frank Benjamin Foster III (September 23, 1928 – July 26, 2011) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer.

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Frank Wess

Frank Wellington Wess (January 4, 1922 – October 30, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Freddie Redd

Freddie Redd (born May 29, 1928) is an American hard-bop pianist and composer.

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Free Again (Gene Ammons album)

Free Again is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.

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Funky (Gene Ammons album)

Funky is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label.

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Garnett Brown

Garnett Brown (born January 31, 1936) is a jazz trombonist who has worked with The Crusaders, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, and others.

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Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux

Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux is a live album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1973 and released on the Prestige label.

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Gene Ammons in Sweden

Gene Ammons in Sweden is a live album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in Åhus in 1973 and released on the Enja label in 1981.

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George Barrow (musician)

George Barrow (21 September 1921 – 20 March 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist who played both tenor and baritone saxes.

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George Coleman

George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935) is an American jazz saxophonist known for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.

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George Duvivier

George Duvivier (August 17, 1920 – July 11, 1985) was an American jazz double-bass player.

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George Freeman (guitarist)

George Freeman (born April 10, 1927) is an American jazz guitarist from Chicago.

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Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player.

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God Bless Jug and Sonny

God Bless Jug and Sonny is a live album by saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons recorded in Baltimore in 1973 and released on the Prestige label in 2001.

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God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)

"God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939.

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Goodbye (Gene Ammons album)

Goodbye is the final album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1974 and released on the Prestige label.

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Got My Own

Got My Own is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.

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Groove Blues

Groove Blues is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1958 and released on the Prestige label.

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Groovin' with Jug

Groovin' with Jug is a live album (with three tracks recorded in the studio) by organist Richard Holmes and saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1961 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.

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Grover Mitchell

Grover Curry Mitchell (March 17, 1930 in Whatley, Alabama – August 6, 2003 in New York City) was a jazz trombonist who led the Count Basie Orchestra.

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Hampton Hawes

Hampton Barnett Hawes, Jr. (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977) was an American jazz pianist.

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Hank Jones

Henry "Hank" Jones Jr. (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer.

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Harold Ousley

Harold Lomax Ousley (January 23, 1929 – August 13, 2015) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist.

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Harold Vick

Harold Vick (April 3, 1936 – November 13, 1987) was an American hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Headed and Gutted

Headed and Gutted is a live album by saxophonist Willis Jackson which was recorded in 1974 and first released on the Muse label.

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Henderson Chambers

Henderson Chambers (May 1, 1908 in Alexandria, Louisiana – October 19, 1967 in New York City) was an American jazz trombonist.

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Here's That Rainy Day

"Here's That Rainy Day" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, published in 1953.

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Herman Riley

Herman Riley (August 31, 1933 – April 14, 2007) was a jazz saxophonist who spent most of his life as a studio musician in Los Angeles.

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Horace Parlan

Horace Parlan (January 19, 1931, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – February 23, 2017, Korsør, Denmark) was an American hard bop and post-bop pianist and composer.

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Horn to Horn

Horn to Horn is an album by saxophonists Teddy Edwards and Houston Person which was recorded in 1994 and first released on the Muse label in 1996.

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Houston Person

Houston Person (born November 10, 1934) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer.

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Howard McGhee

Howard McGhee (March 6, 1918 – July 17, 1987) was one of the first bebop jazz trumpeters, with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman.

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I Mean You (album)

I Mean You is an album by pianist George Cables recorded in 1993 and released on the Danish label, SteepleChase.

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I Remember You (1941 song)

"I Remember You" is a popular song, published in 1941.

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I'll Close My Eyes (song)

I'll Close My Eyes is a song with words and music originally written by the English songwriter and bandleader Billy Reid and published in 1945.

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I'm Glad There Is You

"I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)" is a song written by Jimmy Dorsey and Paul Madeira (sometimes credited as Paul Mertz) first published in 1941.

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Idrees Sulieman

Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923 – July 23, 2002, both in St. Petersburg, Florida) was a bop and hard bop trumpeter.

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Idris Muhammad

Idris Muhammad (إدريس محمد; born Leo Morris; November 13, 1939 – July 29, 2014) was an American jazz drummer who recorded extensively with many musicians, including Ahmad Jamal, Lou Donaldson, Pharoah Sanders, and Tete Montoliu.

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Ike Day

Isaac Day Jr. (1925 - c. 1958), better known as Ike Day, was a Chicago-based hard bop and bebop jazz drummer.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Israel Crosby

Israel Crosby (January 19, 1919 – August 11, 1962) was a jazz double-bassist born in Chicago, Illinois.

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J. C. Heard

James Charles Heard (August 10, 1917 – September 27, 1988), known as J. C. Heard, was an American swing, bop, and blues drummer.

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Jack McDuff

Eugene McDuff (September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001), known professionally as "Brother" Jack McDuff or "Captain" Jack McDuff, was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era of the 1960s, often performing with an organ trio.

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Jack Nimitz

Jack Nimitz (January 11, 1930 – June 10, 2009) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.

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Jack Noren

Jack Noren (October 19, 1929, Chicago - March 17, 1990, Chicago) was a jazz drummer and vocalist born in America but best known for his work in Sweden.

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Jack Wilson (jazz pianist)

Jack Wilson (August 3, 1936 – October 5, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Jackie McLean

John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''Down Beat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death.

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James Moody (saxophonist)

James Moody (March 26, 1925 – December 9, 2010) was an American jazz saxophone and flute player and very occasional vocalist, playing predominantly in the bebop and hard bop styles.

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Jamil Nasser

Jamil Nasser, born George Joyner (June 21, 1932 – February 13, 2010) and also credited on some of Ahmad Jamal's recordings as Jamil Sulieman, was an American jazz musician.

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Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons

Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (also rereleased as The Twister) is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label.

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Jammin' with Gene

Jammin' with Gene is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label.

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Jay Migliori

Jay Migliori (November 14, 1930 – September 2, 2001) was an American saxophonist, best known as a founding member of Supersax, a tribute band to Charlie Parker.

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Jerome Richardson

Jerome Richardson (December 25, 1920 – June 23, 2000) was an American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist, and flute player, who also played soprano sax, alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute and piccolo.

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Jerry Valentine

Gerald Graham "Jerry" Valentine (September 13, 1914 - October 1983) was an American jazz trombonist and arranger.

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Jesse Drakes

Jesse Drakes (22 October 1924 - 1 May 2010) was an American jazz trumpet player.

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Jesse Miller (musician)

Jesse Miller, Jr. (August 16, 1921 – January 24, 1950) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

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Jimmy Bond (musician)

James Edward Bond Jr. (January 27, 1933 – April 26, 2012), known as Jimmy Bond, was an American double bass player, arranger and composer who performed and recorded with many leading jazz, blues, folk and rock musicians between the 1950s and 1980s.

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Jimmy Cleveland

James Milton Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.

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Jimmy Gourley

James Pasco Gourley, Jr. (June 9, 1926 – December 7, 2008) was an American jazz guitarist who spent most of his life in Paris.

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Jimmy Powell (musician)

James Theodore Powell (October 24, 1914 – February 16, 1994) was an American jazz saxophonist who played alto sax.

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Jo Jones

Jonathan David Samuel Jones (October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985) was an American jazz drummer.

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Jodie Christian

Jodie Christian (February 2, 1932 – February 13, 2012) - accessed February 14, 2012 was an American jazz pianist, noted for bebop and free jazz.

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Joe Beck

Joe Beck (July 29, 1945 – July 22, 2008) was an American jazz guitarist who was active for over 30 years.

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Joe Newman (trumpeter)

Joseph Dwight Newman (7 September 1922 – 4 July 1992) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie.

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Joe Sample

Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample (February 1, 1939 – September 12, 2014) was an American pianist, keyboard player, and composer.

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John Coltrane discography

This article presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967).

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John Guerin

John Payne Guerin (October 31, 1939 – January 5, 2004) was an American percussionist.

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John Young (jazz pianist)

John Merritt Young (March 16, 1922 – April 16, 2008) was an American jazz pianist.

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Johnny "Hammond" Smith

John Robert "Johnny Hammond" Smith (December 16, 1933 – June 4, 1997) was an American soul jazz and hard bop organist.

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Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Johnny Lytle

Johnny Dillard Lytle (October 13, 1932 in Springfield, Ohio – December 15, 1995 in Springfield) was a jazz drummer and vibraphonist.

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Jug & Dodo

Jug & Dodo is a 1972 double album featuring pianist Dodo Marmarosa and saxophonist Gene Ammons.

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Jug (album)

Jug is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1961 and released on the Prestige label.

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Jug (nickname)

As a nickname, Jug may refer to.

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Junior Mance

Julian Clifford Mance, Jr. (known as Junior Mance, born October 10, 1928) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Just Jug

Just Jug is a live album by saxophonists Gene Ammons recorded in Chicago in 1961 and originally released on the Argo label in 1962.

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Kaleidoscope (Sonny Stitt album)

Kaleidoscope is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt compiling tracks recorded in 1950-52 and released on the Prestige label in 1957.

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Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label.

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Kenny Clarke

Kenneth Spearman Clarke (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaquat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Kenny Drew

Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew (August 28, 1928 – August 4, 1993) was an American jazz pianist.

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King Curtis

Curtis Ousley (February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophonist known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, blues, funk and soul jazz.

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King Kolax

King Kolax (born William Little, November 6, 1912 – December 18, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

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King Pleasure

King Pleasure (March 24, 1922 – March 21, 1982) was a jazz vocalist and an early master of vocalese, where a singer sings words to a famous instrumental solo.

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Late Hour Special

Late Hour Special is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded in 1961 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1964.

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Left Bank Encores

Left Bank Encores is a live album by saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons recorded in Baltimore in 1973 and released on the Prestige label in 2002.

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Left Bank Jazz Society

The Left Bank Jazz Society was a Baltimore, Maryland-based organization that promoted jazz in Baltimore.

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Leo Parker

Leo Parker (April 18, 1925, Washington, D.C. - February 11, 1962, New York City) was an American jazz musician who played baritone saxophone.

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Leon Spencer

Leon Spencer (November 1, 1945 - March 11, 2012) was an American acid jazz / soul jazz organist born in Houston, Texas.

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Leonard Chess

Leonard Chess (March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969) was an American record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records.

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Leonard Hawkins

Leonard Hawkins was an American Jazz trumpeter who played with Billy Eckstine Gene Ammons and Dexter Gordon, among others.

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Lila Ammons

Lila Ammons is a blues and jazz vocalist.

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List of bebop musicians

For the main article, please see Bebop.

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List of boogie woogie musicians

Among the many boogie-woogie musicians are not only blues players, but rock and roll, and country musicians as well, and at least one classical musician.

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List of cemeteries in the United States

This is a list of cemeteries in the United States, with selected notable interments.

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List of deaths in rock and roll

The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died.

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List of hard bop musicians

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music.

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List of jazz saxophonists

Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) in jazz and its associated subgenres.

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List of nicknames of jazz musicians

Nicknames are common among jazz musicians. Nicknames and sobriquets can also sometimes become stage names, and there are several cases of performers being known almost exclusively by their nicknames as opposed to their given names.

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List of people from Illinois

Aa–Ag.

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List of saxophonists

X.

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List of songs about Chicago

This is a list of songs about Chicago.

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List of soul jazz musicians

The following is a list of soul jazz musicians.

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List of years in jazz

This page indexes the individual year in jazz pages.

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Live at the Bull – Tribute Vols. 1–2

Live at the Bull – Tribute Vols.

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Lonely and Blue (Etta Jones album)

Lonely and Blue is an album by jazz vocalist Etta Jones which was recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.

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Long Ago (and Far Away)

"Long Ago (and Far Away)" is a popular song from the 1944 Technicolor film musical Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and released by Columbia Pictures.

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Lou Donaldson discography

This is the discography for American jazz musician Lou Donaldson.

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Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer.

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Macomba Lounge

The Macomba Lounge, at 3905 South Cottage Grove, Chicago, was an after-hours music club owned by Leonard Chess from 1946 to October 1950, when it burned down.

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Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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Matthew Gee

Matthew Gee (November 25, 1925, Houston, Texas – July 18, 1979, New York City) was an American bebop trombonist and part-time actor.

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Mickey Roker

Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer.

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Mister Magic

Mister Magic is the fourth album by jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr., released in February 1975.

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Monterey Jazz Festival

The Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF), in Monterey, California, is one of the world's longest consecutively running jazz festivals.

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Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline.

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Music of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois is a major center for music in the midwestern United States where distinctive forms of blues (greatly responsible for the future creation of rock and roll), and house music, a genre of electronic dance music, were developed.

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My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons

My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt featuring selections associated with his fellow musician Gene Ammons recorded in 1975 and released on the Muse label in 1976.

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My Romance (song)

"My Romance" is a popular song, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, written for Billy Rose's musical, Jumbo (1935).

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My Way (Gene Ammons album)

My Way is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1971 and released on the Prestige label.

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Nat Adderley

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

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Nice an' Cool

Nice an' Cool is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1961 and released on the Moodsville label.

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Night Flight to Dakar

Night Flight to Dakar is an album by saxophonists Al Cohn and Billy Mitchell, pianist Dolo Coker, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Frank Butler recorded in Dakar in 1980 for Xanadu Records.

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Night Letter (album)

Night Letter is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label.

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Night Lights (Gene Ammons album)

Night Lights is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1970 and released on the Prestige label.

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Norman Edge

Norman Edge (April 29, 1934 – June 4, 2018) was an American jazz musician who played the double bass.

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Oliver Jackson

Oliver Jackson (April 28, 1933 – May 29, 1994), also known as Bops Junior, was an American jazz drummer.

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Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Oliver Nelson discography

This is the discography for American jazz musician Oliver Nelson.

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Once I Loved

"Once I Loved" ("O Amor em Paz") is a bossa nova jazz standard composed in 1960 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes.

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Oscar Brashear

Oscar Brashear (born August 18, 1944, Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz trumpeter and session musician.

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Out in the Cold Again

"Out in the Cold Again" is a song written by Ted Koehler and Rube Bloom and first performed by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra.

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Patti Bown

Patti Bown (July 26, 1931, Seattle, Washington – March 21, 2008, Media, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and singer.

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Paul Chambers discography

This is the discography for American jazz musician Paul Chambers.

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Paul Humphrey

Paul Nelson Humphrey (born October 12, 1935, Detroit, Michigan, United States) is an American jazz and funk/R&B drummer.

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Paul Quinichette

Paul Quinichette (May 17, 1916 – May 25, 1983) was an American jazz musician who played the tenor saxophone.

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Pennies from Heaven (song)

"Pennies from Heaven" is a 1936 American popular song with music by Arthur Johnston and words by Johnny Burke.

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Pepper Adams

Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and composer.

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Pete Christlieb

Pete Christlieb (born February 16, 1945) is a jazz bebop, West Coast jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist.

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Peter King (Nigerian musician)

Peter King Adeyoyin Osubu (born 1938), known as Peter King, is a Nigerian musician who played several instruments, but was best known as an alto saxophonist playing a combination of Afrobeat and jazz.

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Play Me

"Play Me" is a 1972 song by Neil Diamond from his album Moods.

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Prayer Meetin'

Prayer Meetin is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Preachin'

Preachin is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Prestige Records discography

This is the discography for jazz record label Prestige Records.

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Prince Lasha

William B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha (pronounced "La-shay"), (September 10, 1929 – December 12, 2008) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist.

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Randy Gelispie

Randy "Uncle G" Gelispie is an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and educator.

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Ray Barretto

Ray Barretto (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American Grammy Award-winning conga drummer and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry.

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Red Holloway

James Wesley "Red" Holloway (May 31, 1927 – February 25, 2012) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Red Mitchell

Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell (September 20, 1927 – November 8, 1992), was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet.

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Reunald Jones

Reunald Jones Sr. (December 22, 1910 - February 26, 1989), was a jazz trumpeter who worked both in big bands and as a studio musician.

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Richard Holmes (organist)

Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes (May 2, 1931 – June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre.

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Richard Wyands

Richard Francis Wyands (born July 2, 1928) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, best known as a side-man.

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Richie Cannata

Richie Cannata (born March 3, 1949) is an American music producer, multi-instrumentalist and studio owner.

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Rob Agerbeek

Robbert Arris Jules "Rob" Agerbeek (born 28 September 1937 in Batavia (Jakarta)) is an Indo Dutch boogie-woogie and jazz pianist and winner of several jazz concourses in the Netherlands in the late 1950s.

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Roland Hanna

Roland Pembroke Hanna (February 10, 1932 – November 13, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher.

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Romance & Cigarettes

Romance & Cigarettes is a 2005 American musical romantic comedy film written and directed by John Turturro.

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Ron Carter discography

This is the discography for American double bassist Ron Carter.

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Roy McCurdy

Roy McCurdy (born November 28, 1936) is a jazz drummer.

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Rudy Collins

Rudy Collins (July 24, 1934 - August 15, 1988) was an American jazz drummer born in New York City.

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Rudy Williams

Rudy Williams (nicknamed Looney; 1909–1954) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.

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Rufus Reid

Rufus Reid (born February 10, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer.

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Sam Jones (musician)

Samuel Jones (November 12, 1924 – December 15, 1981) was an American jazz double bassist, cellist, and composer.

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Santana (1971 album)

Santana is the third studio album by Santana.

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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.

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Sentimental Journey (Houston Person album)

Sentimental Journey is an album by saxophonist Houston Person which was recorded in 2002 and released on the HighNote label.

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Since I Fell for You

"Since I Fell for You" is a jazz and pop standard.

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Snooky Young

Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young (February 3, 1919 – May 11, 2011) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Sock!

Sock! is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded between 1954 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1965.

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Somewhere Along the Way

"Somewhere Along the Way" is a popular song.

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Sonny Phillips

Sonny Phillips (born December 7, 1936) is an American jazz keyboardist.

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Sonny Stitt

Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom.

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Soul jazz

Soul jazz is a development of jazz incorporating strong influences from blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often an organ trio featuring a Hammond organ.

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Soul Stirrin'

Soul Stirrin is an album by American trombonist Bennie Green recorded in 1958 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Soul Summit

Soul Summit is an album by saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt with organist Jack McDuff recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.

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Soul Summit Vol. 2

Soul Summit is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons with vocalist Etta Jones and organist Jack McDuff recorded in 1961 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label.

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Spirit of the Moment – Live at the Village Vanguard

Spirit of the Moment – Live at the Village Vanguard is a 1995 live album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman, released by Warner Bros.

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Steve McCall (drummer)

Steve McCall (September 30, 1933 – May 24, 1989) was an American jazz drummer.

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Stitt's Bits

Stitt's Bits is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt compiling tracks recorded in 1950 and released on the Prestige label in 1958.

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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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Tangerine (1941 song)

"Tangerine" is a popular song.

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Ted Dunbar

Earl Theodore Dunbar (January 17, 1937 – May 29, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator.

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Tell It Like It Tis

Tell It Like It Tis is an album led by organist Richard "Groove" Holmes recorded in 1961 and 1962 and released on the Pacific Jazz label in 1966.

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The Big Sound (Gene Ammons album)

The Big Sound is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1958 and released on the Prestige label.

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The Black Cat!

The Black Cat! is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons, recorded in 1970 and released on the Prestige label.

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The Boss Is Back!

The Boss Is Back! is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label.

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The Chase!

The Chase! is a live album by saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Gene Ammons recorded in Chicago in 1970 and released on the Prestige label.

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The Happy Blues

The Happy Blues is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label.

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The Heavy Hitter

The Heavy Hitter is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis recorded in 1979 and released on the Muse label.

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The Jazz Showcase

The Jazz Showcase is the oldest jazz club in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1947 by NEA Jazz Master Joe Segal, who still owns and operates the venue.

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The Party's Over (1956 song)

"The Party's Over" is a popular song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

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The Prestige Recordings

The Prestige Recordings is a box set by jazz musician John Coltrane.

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The Rainbow Ballroom (Denver)

The Rainbow Ballroom, at 38 E 5th Avenue (at Lincoln N Lincoln Street), Denver, was a dance hall that was one of the best known dance halls west of the Mississippi, according to a 1946 ''Billboard'' article.

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The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons

The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1962 and released on the Moodsville label.

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The Swingin'est

The Swingin'est is an album by American trombonist Bennie Green and saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1958 and released on the Vee-Jay label.

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There Is No Greater Love

"There Is No Greater Love" is a 1936 jazz standard composed by Isham Jones, with lyrics by Marty Symes.

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Three Little Words (song)

"Three Little Words" is a popular song with music by Harry Ruby and lyrics by Bert Kalmar, published in 1930.

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Timeline of jazz education

Timeline of jazz education (a chronology of jazz pedagogy): The initial jazz education movement in North American was much an outgrowth of the music education movement that had been in full swing since the 1920s.

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Together Again for the Last Time

Together Again for the Last Time is an album by saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons recorded in 1973 and released on the Prestige label in 1976.

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Tom Archia

Ernest Alvin Archia, Jr. (November 26, 1919 – January 16, 1977), known as Tom Archia, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, sometimes billed as "Texas Tom".

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Tommy Potter

Charles Thomas "Tommy" Potter (September 21, 1918 – March 1, 1988) was a jazz double bass player, best known for having been a member of Charlie Parker's "classic quintet", with Miles Davis, between 1947 and 1950.

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Trudy Pitts

Gertrude E. "Trudy" Pitts (August 10, 1932 – December 19, 2010) was an American soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Twisting the Jug

Twisting the Jug is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons with trumpeter Joe Newman and organist Jack McDuff recorded in 1961 and released on the Prestige label.

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Undecided

"Undecided" is a popular song written by Sid Robin and Charlie Shavers and published in 1938.

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United Records

United Records was a record company and label founded in Chicago by Leonard Allen and Lew Simpkins in 1951.

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Up Tight! (album)

Up Tight! is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1961 and released on the Prestige label.

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Van Gelder Studio

The Van Gelder Studio is a recording studio located at 445 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

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Velvet Soul

Velvet Soul is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded between 1960 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1964.

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Vi Redd

Elvira "Vi" Redd (born September 20, 1928) is an American jazz alto saxophone player, vocalist and educator.

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Von Freeman

Earle Lavon "Von" Freeman Sr. (October 3, 1923 – August 11, 2012) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Walter Bishop Jr.

Walter Bishop Jr. (October 4, 1927 – January 24, 1998) was an American jazz pianist.

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Walter Booker

Walter Booker (December 17, 1933 – November 24, 2006) was an American jazz musician.

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Walter Dyett

Walter Henri Dyett (also known as Captain Walter Henri Dyett; January 11, 1901 – November 17, 1969) was an American violinist and music educator in the Chicago Public Schools system.

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Walter Fuller

Walter "Rosetta" Fuller (February 15, 1910 in Dyersburg, Tennessee - April 20, 2003 in San Diego, California) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

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Walter Perkins (musician)

Walter "Baby Sweets" Perkins (February 10, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois – February 14, 2004 in Queens, New York) was an American jazz drummer.

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Warren Smith (jazz percussionist)

Warren Smith (born May 14, 1934) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist, known as a contributor to Max Roach's M'boom ensemble and leader of the Composer's Workshop Ensemble (Strata-East).

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Wendell Marshall

Wendell Marshall (October 24, 1920, St. Louis, Missouri – February 6, 2002, St. Louis) was an American jazz double-bassist.

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William S. Fischer

William S. Fischer (born March 5, 1935, Shelby, Mississippi) is an American keyboardist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer.

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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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Yardbird Suite

"Yardbird Suite" is a bebop standard composed by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker in 1946.

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You Go to My Head

"You Go to My Head" is a 1938 popular song composed by J. Fred Coots with lyrics by Haven Gillespie.

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You Talk That Talk!

You Talk That Talk! is an album by saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded in 1971 and released on the Prestige label.

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You'd Be So Easy to Love

"(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for William Gaxton to sing in the 1934 Broadway show Anything Goes.

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You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1943 film Something to Shout About, where it was introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche.

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You're Driving Me Crazy

"You’re Driving Me Crazy" is an American popular song composed (music and lyrics) by Walter Donaldson in 1930 and recorded the same year by Lee Morse, Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees and Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (with vocal by Carmen Lombardo).

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1925

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1925 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1925.

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1925 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1925.

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1925 in the United States

Events from the year 1925 in the United States.

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1960 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1960.

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1970s in jazz

In the 1970s in jazz, jazz become increasingly influenced by Latin jazz, combining rhythms from African and Latin American countries, often played on instruments such as conga, timbale, güiro, and claves, with jazz and classical harmonies played on typical jazz instruments (piano, double bass, etc.). Artists such as Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola increasingly influenced the genre with jazz fusion, a hybrid form of jazz-rock fusion which was developed by combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments, and the highly amplified stage sound of rock musicians such as Jimi Hendrix.

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1974 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1974.

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1974 in music

List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1974.

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1975 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1975.

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References

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