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Teddy Buckner - 50% match to George Wein

John Edward Buckner, 16 July 1909, Sherman, Texas, USA, d. 25 September 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA. A fervent disciple of Louis Armstrong from his youth, Buckner remained so all his life. Although his technique was strong enough for him to have worked in whatever style he chose, he deliberately modelled his trumpet playing upon that of his idol, even when it became u Read more

Barbara Lea - 37% match to George Wein

Barbara LeCoq, 10 April 1929, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Her family name was changed to Leacock and she shortened this when she took up a career as a singer. Her higher education took place at Wellesley College where she majored in Music Theory. She sang in the college choir and in the late 40s sang jazz and with dance bands in the north eastern states. She also worked as a jaz Read more

John Graas - 29% match to George Wein

Don Ewell - 27% match to George Wein

Donald Tyson Ewell, 14 November 1916, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, d. 9 August 1983, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA. Although classically trained on piano, Ewell was drawn to jazz and in particular to the music of the early jazz masters of New Orleans. This was despite the fact that by the mid-30s, which was when his career got under way, such forms were suffering a decline in pop Read more

Matthew Gee - 27% match to George Wein

Chris Barber - 24% match to George Wein

17 April 1930, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. In the 40s Barber studied trombone and bass at the Guildhall School of Music, eventually choosing the former as his principal instrument (although he occasionally played bass in later years). In the late 40s he formed his first band, which, unusually, was formed as a co-operative. Also in the band were Monty Sunshine Read more

Jon Eardley - 23% match to George Wein

30 September 1928, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 4 April 1997, Cologne, Germany. Eardley began playing trumpet when he was a child, encouraged by his musician father. His early interest in jazz came from records made by his father’s generation of musicians but he soon became influenced by bop. After military service he formed his own small band, playing bop, and in the Read more

Sylvia Syms - 19% match to George Wein

Sylvia Blagman, 2 December 1917, Brooklyn, USA, d. 10 May 1992, New York City, New York, USA. One of America’s most distinguished cabaret and jazz singers with a profound appreciation of lyrics, Syms overcame polio as a child, and in her teens discovered the delights of jazz in the clubs of New York’s 52nd Street. Inspired and informally trained by Billie Holiday, Read more

Bobby Short - 18% match to George Wein

Robert Waltrip Short, 15 September 1924, Danville, Illinois, USA, d. 21 March 2005, New York, USA. A self-taught pianist, Short worked in vaudeville as a child and sang in clubs and on radio in Chicago, operating under the nickname of ‘the Miniature King of Swing’. In mid-1937 he went to New York where he played and sang for audiences unprepared for smart-suited so Read more

Dave Pell Octet - 18% match to George Wein

Red Garland - 15% match to George Wein

William M. Garland, 13 May 1923, Dallas, Texas, USA, d. 23 April 1984, Dallas, Texas, USA. Garland turned to the piano in his late teens, having earlier studied and played reed instruments. Although initially inspired by mainstream artists, he moved into bebop in the late 40s, accompanying Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro and others while still playing regularly with musicians s Read more

Roland Hanna - 13% match to George Wein

George Lewis - 12% match to George Wein

Alex Welsh - 11% match to George Wein

9 July 1929, Edinburgh, Scotland, d. 25 June 1982, London, England. Welsh began his musical career in Scotland playing cornet, and later trumpet, in trad jazz bands. In the early 50s he moved to London and formed a band that quickly became one of the most proficient of its kind. With every chair filled by musicians of great skill and enthusiasm, the Welsh band was a major fo Read more

Ken Colyer - 11% match to George Wein

18 April 1928, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, d. 8 March 1988, France. Of all the musicians involved in the British revivalist movement of the late 40s and early 50s, trumpeter Colyer was the only one to achieve the status of a jazz legend. He achieved this through a gritty determination to adhere to what he believed to be the true spirit of jazz. Colyer first demonstrate Read more