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		<description><![CDATA[Trumpeter Marcus Printup, who was born and raised in Conyers, Georgia, had his first musical experiences hearing the fiery gospel music his parents sang in church, and would later discover jazz as a senior in high school. While attending the University of North Florida on a music scholarship, he won the International Trumpet Guild Jazz [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few, if any, free jazz saxophonists have approached music with the same degree of intellectual rigor as Sam Rivers; just as few have managed to maintain a high level of creativity over a long life. Rivers plays with remarkable technical precision and a manifest knowledge of his materials. His sound is hard and extraordinarily well-centered, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward “Sonny” Stitt</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward “Sonny” Stitt (February 2, 1924&#8211;July 22, 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist. He was a quintessential saxophonist of the bebop idiom. He was also one of the most prolific saxophonists, recording over 100 records in his lifetime. He was nicknamed the “Lone Wolf” by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern, due to his relentless touring and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clark Terry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clark Terry’s career in jazz spans more than seventy years. He is a world-class trumpeter, flugelhornist, educator, composer, writer, trumpet/flugelhorn designer, teacher and NEA Jazz Master. He has performed for seven U.S. Presidents, and was a Jazz Ambassador for State Department tours in the Middle East and Africa. More than fifty jazz festivals have featured [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born William Vincent Walker in Mobile, Alabama in 1947, his family moved to New York City&#8217;s Harlem while he was still an infant. In junior high school he was nicknamed Billy Bang after a cartoon character, and over his initial protests, it stuck. Around the same time, his primary interest turned to music, and he [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Foster, a saxophonist, composer and arranger who helped shape the sound of the Count Basie Orchestra during its popular heyday in the 1950s and ’60s and later led expressive large and small groups of his own, died on Tuesday at his home in Chesapeake, Va. He was 82. The cause was complications of kidney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art Tatum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art Tatum was among the most extraordinary of all jazz musicians, a pianist with wondrous technique who could not only play ridiculously rapid lines with both hands, but was harmonically 30 years ahead of his time. Able to play stride, swing, and boogie-woogie with speed and complexity that could only previously be imagined, Tatum&#8217;s quick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cal Tjader</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cal Tjader was undoubtedly the most famous non-Latino leader of Latin jazz bands, an extraordinary distinction. From the 1950s until his death, he was practically the point man between the worlds of Latin jazz and mainstream bop; his light, rhythmic, joyous vibraphone manner could comfortably embrace both styles. His numerous recordings for Fantasy and Verve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby Sanabria</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bobby Sanabria, a drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, recording artist, producer, filmmaker, conductor, educator, multi-cultural warrior and multiple Grammy nominee, has performed with a veritable Who&#8217;s Who in the world of jazz and Latin music, as well as with his own critically acclaimed ensembles. His diverse recording and performing experience includes work with such legendary figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dizzy Gillespie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With his great ballooning cheeks and trademark trumpet&#8217;s bell upturned at a 45-degree angle, Dizzy Gillespie easily has the most recognizable face in jazz. Born John Birks Gillespie, Dizzy moved to Philadelphia with his family at age 18 and joined Frankie Fairfax&#8217;s band before moving on to New York City where he joined Teddy Hill&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Bey</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew W. Bey was born October 28, 1939 in Newark, New Jersey. He is a jazz singer and pianist. He worked on a television show, Startime, with Connie Francis and sang for Louis Jordan. He also did notable work with Horace Silver and Gary Bartz. Later he had an album named Experience And Judgment, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Moody</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Moody was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 26, 1925. Growing up in New Jersey, he was attracted to the saxophone after hearing Don Byas and various saxophonists who played with Count Basie. He joined the US Army Air Corps in 1943 and played in the &#8220;negro band&#8221; on the segregated base. Following his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Billy Taylor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Billy Taylor, a Jazz pianist, composer, educator and broadcaster who encompassed that rare combination of creativity, intelligence, vision, commitment and leadership, qualities that made him one of our most cherished national treasures, died in New York on December 28, 2010. He was 89 and lived in Riverdale, New York. The distinguished ambassador of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Chambers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the top jazz bassists of all time, especially during 1955-1965, Paul Chambers was among the first in jazz to take creative bowed solos (other than Slam Stewart, who hummed along with his bowing). He grew up in Detroit, where he was part of the fertile local jazz scene. After touring with Paul Quinichette, [...]]]></description>
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