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Renowned Jazz Trombonist Benny Powell Featured At LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on April 25

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Walter Fuller, 93; Jazz Musician, Civil-Rights Pioneer

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By Jack Williams Copley News Service

He traveled with medicine shows in his youth, a precocious musician doubling as a rattlesnake-toting stagehand for a doctor of potions and tonics.

He played his trumpet at Chicago speakeasies in the Al Capone era, often surrounded by armed patrons of dubious reputation.

And for several years, before and during World War II, he was lead trumpeter and vocalist for legendary jazz pianist Earl Fatha Hines.

When Walter Fuller made his home ...

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Gene Ess "Live" at the Blue Note, NYC

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Brofsky & Son Quintet At Vermont Jazz Center

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Berklee Students To Play At New York's Famed Blue Note Jazz Club

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Teddy Edwards: Major Player on the West Coast Scene

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Born: April 26, 1924 in Jackson, Mississippi Died: April 20, 2003 in Los Angeles, California

Teddy (Theodore Marcus) Edwards was a major figure on the post-war jazz scene in Los Angeles, where he settled in 1945, and adopted his familiar tenor (rather than alto) saxophone in a group led by Howard McGhee.

He led his own bands for five decades, and also worked as a soloist with many major names in jazz, including Max Roach, Benny Goodman, Shelly ...

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Larry Coryell Power Trio at the Iridium Tues. and Wed., April 22-23

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Tues. and Wed., April 22-23 Larry Coryell Power Trio Featuring Mark Egan And Paul Wertico

Among the most gifted soloists to emerge since the 1960s, guitarist Larry Coryell (b. 1943) brilliantly improvises and adeptly synthesizes styles, from classical to jazz, blues, country, and rock As one of the pioneers of jazz-rock -- perhaps the pioneer in the ears of some -- Larry Coryell deserves a special place in the history books. He brought what amounted to ...

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Jimmy Smith Quintet at the Iridium Thursday-Sunday, April 24-27

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Thursday-Sunday, April 24-27 Jimmy Smith Quintet Mark Whitfield, Herman Riley, Johnathon Wood, Jimmy Jackson

The legendary Jimmy Smith is often referred to as The Father of The Hammond B3 organ. Jimmy first gained international fame with the debut release of A New Sound-A New Star-Jimmy Smith At The Organ Volume 1. His was and is still, a new sound indeed-solidly percussive, phat bass lines, fleet horn-like runs, more than a touch of roadside blues and old-time ...

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