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Jazz
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| Descriptive "tags": |
jazz • under 2000 listeners • guitar
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| Decades Active: |
1960s
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1980s
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Biography
7 February 1924, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. A much underrated musician throughout his career, Crawford played clarinet and saxophone with Fletcher Henderson in the early 40s before tuberculosis forced a change to guitar. He established his reputation playing with the influential first Ahmed Jamal trio in Pittsburgh and Chicago (1951-56), and later played with organist Jimmy Smith and with Gil Evans. Crawford was a principal soloist on Evans’ seminal Out Of The Cool, and his individual approach and percussive effects on his instrument can be heard on the track ‘La Nevada’. A move to Los Angeles led to the formation, in 1961, of a sextet with Johnny Coles and Cecil Payne. During the 60s and 70s he played as an accompanist with Sonny Stitt and Sonny Criss; his association with Jimmy Smith continued into the 80s.
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