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Jewel Brown born 30 August 1937
Jewel Brown (August 30, 1937 – June 25, 2024) was an American jazz and blues singer. She performed alongside artists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. Jewel Brown was born in Houston’s Third...
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Orval Prophet born 31 August 1922
Orval Prophet (31 August 1922 – 4 January 1984) was among the first Canadian country music performers to achieve a career of international scope. He is a second cousin of Ronnie Prophet who is also a...
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Gene Harris born 1 September 1933
Gene Harris (September 1, 1933 – January 16, 2000) was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz. He has a discography of over 80...
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Sax Mallard born 2 September 1915
Oett M. Mallard (September 2, 1915 – August 29, 1986), also known as Sax Mallard, was a Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader. The Mallard familyOett Mallard was the son of a mixed-race couple...
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Mark Wirtz born 3 September 1943
Mark Philipp Wirtz (3 September 1943 – 7 August 2020) was a German-French pop music record producer, composer, singer, musician, author, and comedian. Wirtz was born in Strasbourg, and raised in...
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Joe "Speedo" Frazier born 5 September 1943
Joe “Speedo” Frazier (5 September 1943 - 1 April 2014) was born in New York City and is best known as the lead singer and only black member of the Impalas, a vocal quartet from Brooklyn who are best...
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Jimmy Reed born 6 September 1925
Jimmy Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His particular style of electric blues was popular with a wide variety of audiences....
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Little Milton born 7 September 1934
James Milton Campbell Jr. (September 7, 1934 – August 4, 2005), better known as Little Milton, was an American blues singer and guitarist, best known for his number-one R&B single "We're Gonna Make...
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Earl Nelson born 8 September 1928
Earl Nelson (September 8, 1928 – July 12, 2008), who also performed as Jackie Lee, Chip Nelson, Earl Cosby and Jay Dee, was an American soul singer and songwriter. He started his career in the doo-wop...
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Danny Kalb born 9 September 1942
Daniel Ira Kalb (September 9, 1942 – November 19, 2022) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was an original member of the 1960s group the Blues Project. Kalb was born in Brooklyn but...
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Barbara Morrison born 10 September 1949
Barbara Morrison (September 10, 1949 – March 16, 2022) was an American jazz singer and three-time Grammy-nominated performer and record producer. Though she never had a pop or R&B hit, Morrison was...
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Caravelli born 12 September 1930
Caravelli (12 September 1930 – 1 April 2019) was a French orchestra leader, composer and arranger of orchestral music. Claude Vasori was born in Paris, France. The son of an Italian father and a French...
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Jimmy James born 13 September 1940
Michael "Jimmy" James (13 September 1940 – 14 May 2024) was a Jamaican-British soul singer, known for songs like "Come to Me Softly", "Now Is the Time" and "I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me". Based in...
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Jimmy Gilmer born 15 September 1940
Jimmy Gilmer (September 15, 1940 - September 7, 2024) was better known as the lead singer to the most successful R&R band to emerge from New Mexico, The Fireballs. Jimmy Gilmer was born in Chicago,...
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Cy Walter born 16 September 1915
Cy Walter (September 16, 1915 – August 18, 1968) was an American café society pianist based in New York City for four decades. Through the course of a musical career spanning some four decades (from...
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Curtis Peagler born 17 September 1929
Curtis Peagler (September 17, 1929 — December 19, 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist who was well rooted in the hard swing-oriented sound of the mid west, and played with some of the best in the...
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Louis Myers born 18th September 2024
Louis Myers (September 18, 1929 - September 05, 1994) was an American blues guitarist, harmonicist, bassist, arranger and singer. Associated with the Chicago blues scene of the 1960's and on, having...
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Lovie Austin born 19 September 1887
Cora "Lovie" Austin (September 19, 1887 – July 8, 1972) was one of the premier bandleaders in the hot jazz scene in Chicago in the 1920’s. She was the house pianist at Paramount records, where she...
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Frank Comstock born 20 September 1922
Frank G. Comstock (September 20, 1922 – May 21, 2013) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and trombonist. For television, Comstock wrote and arranged music for major situation comedies and...
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U-Roy born 21 September 1942
Ewart Beckford OD (21 September 1942 – 17 February 2021), known by the stage name U-Roy, was a Jamaican vocalist and pioneer of toasting. U-Roy was known for a melodic style of toasting applied with a...
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