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One of the foremost jazz trumpet players of the 1950's, he was born Chesney Henry Baker in Yale, Oklahoma, on Dec. 23, 1929. He first played trumpet as a teenager in an Army Band. The 1950's found him in San Francisco, where he sat in on jam sessions at Bop City and the Blackhawk where he encountered Paul Desmond and Charlie Parker. Later he was a member of the Jerry Mulligan Quartet.After severe struggles with heroin addiction which put his career into a downspin, Baker recovered and made excellent recordings again, and was noted for his lyrical horn style as well as his vocals.
He died in May of 1988 when he fell out of a hotel window in Amsterdam.
Pioneer of Jazz music (1897-1959), considered an equal of Louis Armstrong and King Oliver in the history of Jazz. First known for his clarinet playing, he later took up the soprano sax. The New Orleans native emigrated to France in the 1950s.
Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was an early jazz cornetist from Davenport, Iowa; regarded by some as the first white "real" jazz musician.
Art Blakey, also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was born Oct. 11, 1919, in Pittsburgh, Pa. This drummer and bandleader was known for his extraordinary drum solos, which helped define the offshoot of bebop known as " hard bop".He was also known for giving younger musicians a start in their careers as jazz performers in his group, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
He died on Oct. 16, 1990 in New York.
American Jazz trumpeter (1930-1956), founder of the influential Clifford Brown/Max Roach quintet that also included Sonny Rollins. His career was cut short at age 25 on June 26, 1956, when he was killed in a highway accident while traveling by car to a job in Chicago.
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