Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen ~ Similar Artists

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Billy Stewart - 89% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

24 March 1937, Washington, DC, USA, d. 17 January 1970, North Carolina, USA. Introduced to music by his family's Stewart Gospel Singers, Billy embraced a more secular direction with the Rainbows, a group that also included Don Covay and Marvin Gaye. From there Stewart joined Bo... Read more

Herbie Mann - 89% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

Herbert Jay Sololmon, 16 April 1930, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, d. 1 July 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. After learning to play the clarinet while still a small child, Mann took up the flute. He developed his musical experience during military service. After... Read more

Acker Bilk - 75% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

Bernard Stanley Bilk, 28 January 1929, Pensford, Somerset, England. A self-taught clarinettist, Bilk made his first public appearance in 1947 while on National Service in Egypt. On his return to the UK, he played as a semi-professional around the Bristol area, before gaining his... Read more

Bill Black's Combo - 69% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

Horace Silver - 68% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva, 2 September 1928, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. Silver studied piano and tenor saxophone at school, settling on the former instrument for his professional career. Early influences included Portuguese folk music (from his father), blues and bop. He... Read more

Bobby McFerrin - 66% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

11 March 1950, New York City, New York, USA. To call Bobby McFerrin a jazz vocalist is hardly to do him justice, for when McFerrin performs - he usually appears solo in lengthy concerts - he uses his entire body as a sound-box, beating noises out of his slender frame while... Read more

Dinah Washington - 60% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

Ruth Lee Jones, 29 August 1924, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, d. 14 December 1963, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Raised in Chicago, Dinah Washington first sang in church choirs for which she also played piano. She then worked in local clubs, where she was heard by Lionel Hampton, who... Read more

The Stereos - 60% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

This vocal group from Steubenville, Ohio, USA, consisted of lead Bruce Robinson, first tenor Nathaniel Hicks, second tenor Sam Profit, baritone George Otis and bass Ronnie Collins. The Stereos were typical of the early 60s transition from doo-wop to soul-singing in a style that... Read more

Julie London - 58% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

Julie Peck, 26 September 1926, Santa Rosa, California, USA, d. 18 October 2000, Encino, California, USA. Actress-singer London was inextricably linked to the sultry Arthur Hamilton song "Cry Me A River", which gave the artist her sole million-seller in 1955. Her memorable... Read more

Kenny G - 57% match to Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen