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Hubert Laws - 100% match to Herbie Mann

10 November 1939, Houston, Texas, USA. The brother of saxophonist Ronnie Laws, flautist Hubert has enjoyed successful careers in both classical and jazz contexts. In the 60s and 70s he recorded for Atlantic Records and Creed Taylor’s CTI label, enjoying particular commercial success with crossover albums such as Afro Classic and The Rite Of Spring. Like most of his earl Read more

Cal Tjader - 90% match to Herbie Mann

Callen Radcliffe Tjader, 16 July 1925, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. 5 May 1982, Manila, Philippines. After studying formally, Tjader played drums with various bands on the west coast before joining Dave Brubeck in 1949. In the early 50s he played with Alvino Rey and also led his own small bands. By 1953, the year he joined George Shearing, he had added vibraphone and various Read more

Mongo Santamaria - 45% match to Herbie Mann

Ramón Santamaría, 7 April 1922, Jesús María district, Havana, Cuba, d. 1 February 2003, Miami, Florida, USA. Percussionist and band leader Santamaría (nicknamed Mongo by his father) arrived in New York at the end of the 40s. There he performed with the first charanga (flute, violins, rhythm section and voices band) to be organized in the ci Read more

Eddie Harris - 44% match to Herbie Mann

20 October 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 5 November 1996, Los Angeles, California, USA. Harris’ apprenticeship was served with Gene Ammons before army service took to him to Europe. He had a surprise hit in 1961 with an arrangement of Ernest Gold’s Exodus theme, and followed with three further hit records (in the USA) over the next decade, the most notable being Read more

Laurindo Almeida - 44% match to Herbie Mann

Paul Desmond - 44% match to Herbie Mann

Carlos Barbosa-Lima - 42% match to Herbie Mann

17 December 1944, São Paulo, Brazil. Barbosa-Lima studied guitar from the age of seven, making his concert debut before he entered his teenage years. Along the way, he took lessons from Andrés Segovia. He first recorded in the early 60s and made his US debut in 1967. From the early 80s his name became much better known in the USA, owing in part to concerts in N Read more

Milt Jackson - 40% match to Herbie Mann

1 January 1923, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 9 October 1999, New York City, New York, USA. Jackson’s first professional engagement, at the age of 16, was in his home town, playing the vibraphone alongside tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson (one year his junior). Jackson benefited from the 40s loose attitude towards band personnel, spending six years accompanying visiting mu Read more

Willie Bobo - 40% match to Herbie Mann

William Correa, 28 February 1934, New York City, New York, USA, of Puerto Rican parentage, d. 15 September 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA. Growing up in New York’s El Barrio, Bobo was exposed to substantial doses of Latin music, jazz and R&B. These genres later jostled together in his work as a band leader. He started playing Latin percussion at the age of 14 (t Read more

Stanley Turrentine - 39% match to Herbie Mann

5 April 1934, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 12 September 2000, New York City, USA. After playing cello Turrentine took up the tenor saxophone before reaching his teenage years. Born into a musical family (his father, Thomas Turrentine, played tenor with Al Cooper’s Savoy Sultans, and his brother Tommy Turrentine was a proficient trumpet player), Stanley quickly beca Read more

Gabor Szabo - 38% match to Herbie Mann

8 March 1936, Budapest, Hungary, d. 26 February 1982, Budapest, Hungary. Guitarist Szabó emigrated to the USA in 1956 to study at the Berklee College Of Music. He came to notice playing with Chico Hamilton and Charles Lloyd. In the late 60s he began to explore a fusion of jazz with the kind of rock that was superficially influenced by Indian music. He introduced a num Read more

George Shearing - 38% match to Herbie Mann

13 August 1919, London, England. Shearing was born blind but started to learn piano at the age of three. After limited training and extensive listening to recorded jazz, he began playing at hotels, clubs and pubs in the London area, sometimes as a single, occasionally with dance bands. In 1940 he joined Harry Parry’s popular band and also played with Stéphane Gra Read more

Jimmy McGriff - 38% match to Herbie Mann

James Herrell, 3 April 1936, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Encouraged by a musical home environment (both his parents were pianists), by the time he left school, McGriff played not only piano but bass, vibes, drums and saxophone. He played with Archie Shepp, Reggie Workman, Charles Earland and Donald Bailey in his youth, but after two years as an military policeman in the Read more

Lou Donaldson - 38% match to Herbie Mann

1 November 1926, Badin, North Carolina, USA. Donaldson started on clarinet but, while playing in a band in the US Navy alongside Willie Smith and Clark Terry, he switched to alto saxophone. In the early 50s he was in New York, playing with Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Art Blakey and other leading jazzmen. In 1954 he and Clifford Brown joined Blakey’s J Read more

Bobby Hutcherson - 37% match to Herbie Mann

27 January 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA. After formal tuition on piano, Hutcherson switched to playing jazz vibraphone when he heard records by Milt Jackson. He worked briefly on the west coast then, in 1961, moved to New York, where he established himself as an inventive, forward-thinking musician. He played with many of the outstanding artists of the 60s, among them Read more