Category: Jazz
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Katie Melua
About Ketevan “Katie” Melua is a British singer and songwriter. She was born in Kutaisi, Georgia and raised in Belfast and London. Under the management of composer Mike Batt, she was signed to the small Dramatico record label. She made her musical debut in 2003 and within three years, she was the United Kingdom’s best-selling…
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George Benson
About George Washington Benson is an American jazz fusion guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist. Albums/Songs: It’s Uptown Breezin’ Space Lonnie Smith featuring George Benson, Ron Carter Body Talk Benson & Farrell The Other Side of Abbey Road Goodies In Your Eyes The…
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Michel Legrand
About Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young…
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Toots Thielemans
About Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans, known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known for playing the chromatic harmonica, as well as his guitar and whistling skills, and composing. According to jazz historian Ted Gioia, his most important contribution was in “championing the humble harmonica”, which Thielemans made into…
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Randy Weston
About Randolph Edward “Randy” Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection. Albums/Songs: African Cookbook The Healers Little Niles Blue Randy Weston Meets Himself Volcano Blues Piano A-la-mode Saga The Modern Art of Jazz by Randy Weston Rhythms and Sounds Piano Earth Birth Berkshire Blues Uhuru…
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Miles Davis
About Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.…
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Hugh Masekela
About Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as “the father of South African jazz”. Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as “Soweto Blues” and “Bring Him Back Home”. He also had a number-one US pop hit in…
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Victor Wooten
About Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group’s formation in 1988 and a member of the band SMV with two other bassists, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. From 2017 to 2019 he recorded as the bassist for…
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Eumir Deodato
About Eumir Deodato de Almeida is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova. Albums/Songs: Idéias Knights of Fantasy Happy Hour Somewhere Out There The Best of Deodato…
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Gábor Szabó
About Gábor István Szabó was a Hungarian-American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music. Albums/Songs: Live in Cleveland 1976 Gypsy ’66 Belsta River Magical Connection Dreams Mizrab Light My Fire The Sorcerer Femme Fatale Small World Lena & Gabor Blowin’ Some Old Smoke More Sorcery Jazz Raga Simpático Nightflight His Great Hits…
