List of nicknames of jazz musicians — Nicknames are common among jazz musicians. Nicknames and sobriquets can also sometimes become stage names, and there are several cases of performers being known almost exclusively by their nicknames as opposed to their given names. Some of the… … Wikipedia
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Elaine Delmar — (born 13 September 1939) is an English singer.She was born as Elaine Hutchinson in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Her father was the jazz trumpeter Leslie Jiver Hutchinson. She was educated at Rhodes and Trinity Grammar Schools in Wood Green. She… … Wikipedia
Cab Kaye — Augustus Kwamla or Kwamlah Nii lante Quaye, better known as Cab Kaye (September 3, 1921, London March 13, 2000, Amsterdam) was an English jazz multi instrumentalist.Kaye s father, Caleb Quaye (b. Ghana, 1895 1922), performed in London under the… … Wikipedia
Leslie Thompson (musician) — Leslie Anthony Joseph Thompson (October 17, 1901, Kingston, Jamaica December 26, 1987, London) was a Jamaican jazz trumpeter.Thompson played in the West India Regiment band and played locally in Kingston movie palaces in the 1920s, then moved to… … Wikipedia
Ken Moule — Kenneth John Moule (June 26, 1925, Barking January 27, 1986, Marbella, Spain) was an English jazz pianist, best known as a composer and arranger.Early in his career, Moule played piano with John Dankworth (1945), Jiver Hutchinson (1948), Bert… … Wikipedia
Bertie King — Albert Bertie King (1912 – 1981) was a Jamaican jazz and mento musician.King, a saxophonist, was raised in Kingston, and he left that country in the 1930s to play in England. He worked in England with Jiver Hutchinson and in France with Django… … Wikipedia
Joe Appleton — (1900 1956) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist from the West Indies.Appleton moved to Britain in the 1920s, and he played in dance bands both there and on the Continent through the end of the decade. In 1934 he played in Leslie Thompson s… … Wikipedia
Pete King (saxophonist) — This article is about Pete King, the tenor saxophonist and manager of Ronnie Scott s. For the alto saxophonist Peter King, see Peter King. For others with the same name, see the disambiguation page for Peter King. Peter Pete King, born Bow,… … Wikipedia
