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Calvin Owens

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Those with a sense of history may remember Calvin Owens for his two long tours of duty with B. B. King, serving as B.B.'s first music director during the 1953-57 affiliation ( the Kent Years) and then as bandleader for King's orchestra from 1978 until 1984. Among the results of their collaboration was a 1983 Grammy Award-winning album called “Blues n Jazz,” for which Owens wrote all the arrangements. Owens, born in New Orleans Fifth Ward, migrated with his mother to Houston, Texas, where at thirteen he began playing trumpet. Joining a vaudeville show after high school, Owens later met B

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True Blue

Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2005

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Stop Lying In My Face - Big Band Hip Hop

Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2005

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Another Concept

Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2004

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The House Is Burning

Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2002

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Keeping Bigband Blues Alive

Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2000

Album

Best Of

Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2000


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