Stevie Ray Vaughan, October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990

American guitarist, vocalist, song-writer and recording artist. Influenced by guitarists of various genres, Vaughan emphasized intensity and emotion in his guitar playing, and favored vintage guitars and amplifiers. He became one of the leading blues rock musicians, encompassing multiple styles including jazz and ballads.



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SRV also tuned his guitar to Eflat instead of E, to get the sound he wanted. Arthur Lee's song "Little Red Book" caused a fuss because of Mau Si Tung's book by the same name to rule his dictatorship of China. Thanks Ump and E for the post.

 

Frankie Lymon

Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon (September 30, 1942 – February 27, 1968) was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll group called Frankie and the Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes, and two Puerto Rican members, Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni.

The Teenagers' first single, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and those of the Teenagers fell into decline. At age 25, he was found dead in his grandmother's bathroom from a heroin overdose. His life inspired the 1998 film, Why Do Fools Fall In Love?.





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Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman, May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986

Few can match the swingin’ sounds of Goodman’s Big Band. Benny Goodman, known as the “King of Swing,” led one of the most popular bands of the early 20th century. His 1938 concert at Carnegie hall is considered to be one of the most important live shows in American music history, as it showcased jazz’ coming to prominence as a respectable art form. Despite being a major player of big-band swing music, Goodman also helped the advancement of be-bop. Having a one of the first racially-integrated music groups and being a strong opposer of Jim Crow Laws, Goodman promoted racial-equality by not touring the Southern States. Goodman was both an important influence in popular and jazz music, as well as a prominent Civil Rights activist.



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Chuck Mangione, born November 29, 1940

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.




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Nice, e! One of my favs.

I could have sworn that Goodman was in his 80s when he died.

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I've never been a Mangione fan, but good contribution!

 

He and his brother, Gap, are hometown boys. He hooked me with Feels So Good. After that, I started actively listening to contemporary jazz.

 

That is what is great about people; we are not uniform and there is something that appeals to everyone.

I am just not excited by his stuff and I had someone suggest I go back and check out the early Mangione Brothers material, and I found that wanting, too.

But, there is plenty of stuff I like that most people would listen to and head straight for the vomitorium.....

 

Vomitorium? That is a great word, and one I'm going to start using.

 

DEXTER GORDON

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Although technically not one of the 'founders' of Bebop, Gordon was, by the age of 18, one of the most proficient adapters to the new free and improvisational style, and because of his almost hypnotic tone on the tenor sax, he was among the most influential disseminators of the genre.


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Despite serious drug addiction, a couple of stints in prison and self-imposed European exile from the United States, Gordon remained one of the most popular and most prolific jazz artists in this country over the course of nearly 50 years.

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DEX, or "Long, Tall Dexter" (as he was sometimes called because of his six-foot-six height and lanky physique) became more well-known and more popular when he switched to the mellower and more predictable Hard Bop style around 1950, but it was his technique that made him great, not the genre in which he played.

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Dexter Gordon (1923-1990)

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ART BLAKEY

Known both as one of the innovators of the bebop and hard bop styles of drumming and for his "school" for young jazz musicians, Blakey ranks as one of the most important and most influential jazz artists of all time.

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Although having worked with a band referred to as The Jazz Messengers in 1947, Blakey "semi-officially" co-founded The Jazz Messengers in 1953 with pianist Horace Silver.....

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After a couple of recordings were made, Silver left the group project. Carrying on from 1954, Blakey led the Jazz Messengers for the next 36 years, until his death in 1990.....

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