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		<title>Terell Stafford</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Known for being a gifted and versatile player with a voice all his own, Stafford combines lyricism and a deep love of melody with a spirited, adventurous edge. This uniquely expressive, well-defined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jones Brothers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elvin Jones Elvin “The Emperor” Jones was best known for his association with the classic John Coltrane Quartet (1960-1965) but he also had a notable career as a bandleader and continued to be a major influence in music. One of the all-time great drummers (bridging the gap between advanced hard bop and the avant-garde), Jones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miguel Zenón</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miguel Zenón was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There, he studied classical saxophone at the famed Escuela Libre de Musica. Although Zenón was exposed to jazz while in high school, it wasn’t until he began his studies at the Berklee School of Music that his formal jazz training began. After graduating from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby Broom</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bobby Broom was born in Harlem on January 18, 1961, and raised on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side. His birth name is Robert Broom, Jr. He is an American jazz guitarist, composer and educator. Broom was playing onstage at the Billie Holiday Theatre with a group of teenage musicians in Young, Gifted, and Broke, a musical [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Williams was born Joseph Goreed in Cordele, Georgia on December 12, 1918. He moved to Chicago at the age of three with his mother, Anne Gilbert, and his grandmother, Mittie Gilbert. Living in Chicago in the 1920s was hugely influential to Joe Williams. There were many African-American musicians thriving on the music scene, and years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horace Silver</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horace Silver, jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader, was born on Sept. 2, 1928, in Norwalk, Conn.  Silver performed with Stan Getz from 1950 – 51 before leading his own trio in 1952. Partnering with Art Blakey, he led the Jazz Messengers from 1954, then formed his own quintet in 1956, where he performed his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dexter Gordon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dexter Keith Gordon was born on February 27, 1923 in Los Angeles, C.A. His father, Dr. Frank Gordon, was one of the first African-American doctors in Los Angeles who arrived in 1918 after graduating from Howard Medical School in Washington, D.C. Among his patients were Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton. Gordon&#8221;s mother, Gwendolyn Baker, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Chambers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was born April 22, 1935, in Pittsburgh, P.A. and died January 4, 1969, in New York, N.Y. He was the son of Paul Laurence Chambers and Ann Dunbar and had two children named Renee and Eric. Upon winning Down Beat magazine&#8217;s 1956 &#8220;New Star Award,&#8221; jazz bassist Paul Chambers entered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCoy Tyner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCoy Turner was born 1938 in Philadelphia where he became a part of the fertile jazz and R&#38;B scene of the early &#8217;50s. His parents imbued him with a love for music from an early age. His mother encouraged him to explore his musical interests through formal training. At 17, he began a career-changing relationship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roy Hargrove</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Hargrove was born on October 16, 1969 in Waco, Texas.  He soon became familiar with the recordings of Maynard Ferguson, Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard, and in the spring of 1987, Hargrove met the man who would electrify his dreams of a professional career who is trumpet superstar Wynton Marsalis. When Marsalis made an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Etta Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Etta Jones was born on November 5, 1928, in Aiken, S.C. and died on October 16, 2001, in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Jazz vocalist Etta Jones recorded more than two dozen albums and earned three Grammy Award nominations during her six-decade-long career. Her popularity peaked in 1960 with the release of her single Don&#8217;t Go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Parker</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, the only child of Charles and Addie Parker. Parker attended Lincoln High School. He enrolled in September 1934 and withdrew in December 1935 about the time he joined the local Musicians Union. Parker began playing the saxophone at age 11 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Whitfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Whitfield was born in October 1966 in Long Island, New York. The youngest of five, his love for jazz and blues music came early.  At the age of 15, all his siblings were moving into careers as doctors and lawyers and Whitfield himself, had obtained a medical student internship at Georgetown University. While that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Harrell McGriff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Harrell McGriff was born on April 3, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, birthplace of many of jazz&#8217;s greatest organists. He started playing piano at the age of five and by his teens, was also playing alto sax and upright bass. His first group was a piano trio, which found him playing bass in the band. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Machito</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machito was born February 16, 1912 in Tampa, Florida and died April 15, 1984 in London, England. He was the King of Afro-Cuban jazz. He grew up singing and playing with many of the leading musicians of Cuba. After playing with a few groups in Havana, he moved to New York City in 1937, following [...]]]></description>
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