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Percy France

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Percy France was born August 15th, 1928, he died January 4th, 1992. Percy was actually hit by a car as a pedestrian and that is how he lost his life but as many of those who were following his condition in the last couple of years knew, he was fighting a very valiant but difficult battle with cancer.

He was raised in New York City and lived in both of the prominent black communities of San Juan Hill and Sugar Hill. He studied the clarinet and the piano, the piano first then very strenuous studies on clarinet and emerged as a fluid reed player, buying his own tenor saxophone at the age of 13, and admiring players like Don Byas in particular.

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Ten Terrific Sax Plus Organ Combinations

Read "Ten Terrific Sax Plus Organ Combinations" reviewed by Artur Moral


OK, maybe the electric guitar was its first and most celebrated love affair, but the organ's alliances with the saxophone's family members are undoubtedly among the richest musical combinations, both in terms of sound and the intense interrelationships that typically develop in such encounters. Whether it be a tenor with a Hammond, a soprano with an ...

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Article: Interview

Mike LeDonne: Where There’s Smoke

Read "Mike LeDonne:  Where There’s Smoke" reviewed by Bob Kenselaar


Mike LeDonne has more than made his mark in jazz over the years, on both piano and organ. One of the New York jazz scene's premier instrumentalists, he's long been a favorite of fellow musicians. “He is incredible," said the late Oscar Peterson, who once described how he would rush to hear LeDonne play every night ...

Album

Home Cookin'

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1961
Track listing: See See Rider; Sugar Hill; I Got A Woman; Messin' Around; Gracie; Come On Baby; Motorin' Along.


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