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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

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All About Jazz is celebrating Jack Sheldon's birthday today!

Along with Lester Young in the '30s, Dizzy Gillespie in the '40s, and Zoot Sims in the '50s, Jack Sheldon is one of the Original Lions of the West Coast Sound. Jack's a premier improviser, is one of only a handful of trumpet players throughout jazz history who has developed his own distinctive “signature sound". It's an inimitable sound that comes from his heart and soul, what Miles Davis called “a voice".

As an integral part of the West Coast Scene of the 1950s, he played an important role in developing that era's bebop- inspired sound. His solid connection to that vibrant period in West...Read more.

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