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Meant to respond earlier to this thread,I believe it was started by Dixie,all I have to say is,Bob James,Kenney G,Spyro Gyra,David Sanborn,Rickey Peterson,Alex Bugnon,Eric Marienthal,Lee Ritenour,Brian Culbertson,Acoustic Alchemy,Tom Grant,The Manahattan Transfer,Sam Cardon,David Benoit,Gregg Karukas......,many more can be provided on request!<div></div><div>Don,if this thread is still running,I may have missed it,feel free to move info.</div>
 
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A little more info on the jazz scene in Pittsburgh,WDUQ is the only jazz station in Pittsburgh,they are an NPR outlet,not long ago they had a fundraiser on air,at that time they recieved donations of close to $368,000 because the people calling in "could not go without jazz in Pittsburgh",they announced this week that jazz would be discontinued on this station because they were going to a news and information format!
 
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Labman,

I didn't start the "White Jazz" thread, but commented on Jimmie Rodgers. I'm not really a fan of jazz, but can appreciate it as real music (versus rap=crap & pop, etc.). Was that Dave Brubek (jazz man) a tribesman or no? I've heard some of his music before.
 
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LabMan said:
really don't know the heritage of Brubek Dixie,but a top performer!
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According to Wiki he is of Swiss and English heritage.

"Take Five" was played often on the airwaves when I was a kid.

Jazz musicians often lead tragic lives. So many were addicted to drugs. Many have destroyed their bodies and died young. I have read the histories of many well known performers and it seems most of them were in and out of rehab all their lives. Death due to overdosing on heroin or barbiturates was/is common.
 
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Bix Beiderbecke was a great white jazz artist who lived a tragic life that ended too soon due to alcohol. Chet Baker was another. Chet was an attractive white artist who was immensely popular in the 1950s but his love affair with dope sucked him dry.
 
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TOMASZ STANKO - ETIUDA BALETOWA NO. 3:


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Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko is a notable European exponent of jazz.
 
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In 1917, the all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band -- Nick LaRocca, clarinetist Larry Shields, trombonist Eddie Edwards, pianist Harry Ragas, and drummer Tony Sbarbaro -- made the first jazz record ever released. It introduced the sound to a national market.Edited by: Bronk
 
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Jack Teagarden (1905-1964), a self-taught trombonist, traveled through the Southwest before he arrived in New York to make his recording debut in 1927. Teagarden was highly regarded for his melodic playing style and for his singing voice. He has been remembered by a number of jazz historians as the best white jazz singer of his time. Teagarden directed a Dixieland sextet for the remainder of his career. He toured the Far East and appeared in a television recording session before his death in 1964. I always felt Paul Newman used Teagarden as the inspiration for his character in the movie Paris Blues.Edited by: Bronk
 
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