Eje Thelin was born Eilert Ove Thelin on June 9, 1938 in Jönköping, Sweden. He started his own quintet in 1961 and from 1969 to 1972 he was on the […]
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Eje Thelin was born Eilert Ove Thelin on June 9, 1938 in Jönköping, Sweden. He started his own quintet in 1961 and from 1969 to 1972 he was on the […]
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Bill Watrous was born William Russell Watrous III on June 8, 1939 in Middletown, Connecticut. Introduced to the jazz trombone at an early age by his trombonist father, it was […]
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Paulinho da Costa was born Paulo Roberto da Costa on May 31, 1948 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Learning to play percussion as a child of five by exploring the […]
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Darrell Grant was born on May 30, 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but his family moved to Denver, Colorado while still a young child. He started piano lessons before his teens […]
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Lynne Arriale was born May 29, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was adopted as an infant only to discover the piano keyboard at three. Her initial training being classical, eventually […]
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Claudio Roditi was born on May 28, 1946 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. He began his musical studies of trumpet when he was just five years old and his native […]
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Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen was born May 27, 1946 in Osted, near Roskilde on the Danish island of Zealand. As a child he played piano and started learning the double bass […]
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Elaine Leighton was born on May 22, 1926 in New York City and while in high school she was in the same class as Stan Getz and Shorty Rogers. Early […]
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Lou Bennett was born May 18, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and first learned to play the piano before switching to the organ. It wasn’t until hearing Jimmy Smith play, that […]
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Joe Roland was born May 17, 1920 in New York City and began as a clarinetist, attending the Institute of Musical Art (The Juilliard School) from 1937 to 1939. He […]
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Virginia Mayhew was born on May 14, 1959 in San Francisco, California and took up the saxophone as a child. Early in her career she worked with trombonist Al Grey […]
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Grégoire Maret was born May 13, 1975 in Geneva, Switzerland. He began playing the harmonica at the age of 17. Upon graduating from the prestigious Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de […]
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Klaus Doldinger was born on May 12, 1936 in Berlin, Germany. By age eleven he entered a Dusseldorf conservatory originally studying piano and then clarinet, graduating in 1957. During his […]
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Philip Harper was born May 10, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland but grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He started played trumpet when he was ten under the tutelage of his brother […]
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Anthony Wilson was born in Los Angeles, California on May 9, 1968 to bandleader Gerald Wilson. A guitarist and composer, he was influenced by Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Wes Montgomery […]
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Joe Ford was born on May 7, 1947 in Buffalo, New York and was singing in his mother and aunt’s family choir by age 5. At seven he started taking […]
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Bob Leatherbarrow was born on May 3, 1955 in Buffalo, New York. He studied drums with Charlie Lorigo, orchestral percussion with John Rowland of the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the vibraphone […]
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Gerald Beckett was born in Beaumont, Texas on May 2nd and started playing alto saxophone at the age of 11. As a freshman at the University of North Texas in […]
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Steve Khan was born April 28, 1947 in Los Angeles, California to lyricist Sammy Cahn. As a teenager he was a terrible drummer but grew a love for guitar and […]
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Tommy Smith was born April 27, 1967 in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in Wester Hailes. Encouraged to lean the tenor saxophone from age 12, by sixteen he had a […]
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Herman Foster was born on April 26, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began his musical career before age ten playing the violin, clarinet, saxophone, and piano. A self-taught pianist, Foster […]
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Candido was born Candido de Guerra Camero on April 22, 1921 in Havana, Cuba and learned to play percussion as a child listening to the music of his native land. Early […]
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Ian Carr was born on April 21, 1933 in Dumfries, Scotland. At the age of seventeen he started to teach himself trumpet and from 1952 to 1956 he attended King’s […]
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Issi Rozen was born on April 20, 1967 in Haifa, Israel, his family moved to Tel Aviv during his childhood. His earliest musical memories were lullabies his mother sang. He […]
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Mary Louise Knutson was born on April 19, 1966. The Minneapolis based jazz pianist and composer released her debut CD “Call Me When You Get There” in 2001 charted in the Top 50 […]
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Kathy Brown was born April 18th in Mandeville, Jamaica and began playing the family piano at age 5. Initially self-taught in reading and playing by ear, she studied classical piano […]
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Warren Chiasson was born on April 17, 1934 in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia and began his music training on the violin and by age 13 was playing sessions with noted fiddlers […]
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Nick Moran was born on April 14, 1963 in New York City and began playing trumpet at age ten, switching over to the guitar at thirteen. His early musical influences […]
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Eddie Marshall was born Edwin Marshall on April 13, 1938 in Springfield, Massachusetts and learned to play the drums as a child. He played in his father’s swing group and […]
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Herbie Hancock was born Herbert Jeffrey Hancock on April 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. Starting with a classical music education, he was considered a child prodigy, studied from age seven and […]
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