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Wes Montgomery born 6 March 1923
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. One of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century, emerging after such seminal figures as Django...
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Paddy Clancy born 7 March 1922
Patrick Clancy (7 March 1922 – 11 November 1998), usually called "Paddy" or "Pat" Clancy, was an Irish folk singer best known as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He was an active...
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Gloria Smyth born 8 March 1934
Gloria Smyth ( 8 March 1934 – April 2015) was an American jazz and soul singer of boundless energy, billed as “ The Princess Of Pop” with a warm and appealing feel for lyrics. She showed influences of...
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Shelley Moore born 10 March 1932
Shelley Moore (March 10, 1932 – June 23, 2016) was an English-born American jazz singer. Her diverse repertoire ranged from traditional to offbeat jazz tunes, including her own compositions and her...
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Erma Franklin born 13 March 1938
Erma Franklin (March 13, 1938 – September 7, 2002) was an American gospel and soul singer. Her musical accomplishments will forever be overshadowed by those of her younger sister Aretha, especially...
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Quincy Jones born 14 March 1933
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) also known as Q, is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans...
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Lightnin' Hopkins born 15 March 1912
Samuel John Hopkins, better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas....
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Dick Curless born 17 March 1932
Richard William Curless (March 17, 1932 – May 25, 1995) was an American country music singer best known for singing truck-drivin' songs such as "Drag 'Em Off the Interstate, Sock It to 'Em J.P. Blues."...
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Lennie Tristano born 19 March 1919
Leonard Joseph Tristano (19 March 1919 - 18 November 1978) was a jazz pianist, composer and teacher of jazz improvisation. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres....
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Marian McPartland born 20 March 1918
Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE ( 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio...
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Otis Spann born 21 March 1924
Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930 – April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading post-war Chicago blues pianist.Sources differ over Spann's early years. Many...
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Annette Snell born 22 March 1945
Annette Snell (March 22, 1945 – April 4, 1977) was an American rhythm and blues singer who recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. She died in the Southern Airways Flight 242 crash.She was born Annetta Snell...
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Dave Pike born 23 March 1938
Dave Pike (23 March 1938 - 3 October 2015) was born in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. He learned drums at the age of eight and was self-taught on vibes. He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1954 and...
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Gus Jenkins born 24 March 1931
Augustus D. "Gus" Jenkins (March 24, 1931 – December 22, 1985) was an American blues and R&B pianist, vocalist and bandleader. Like many of his generation, Jenkins drew his influences from 40s...
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Anita Bryant born 25 March 1940
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and anti-gay rights activist. She scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses"...
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Brew Moore born 26 March 1924
Milton Aubrey "Brew" Moore (March 26, 1924 – August 19, 1973), was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.The tenor saxophonist Brew Moore (Milton Aubrey Moore Jr.) was born in Indianola, Mississippi.. He...
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Semprini born 27 March 1908
Alberto Fernando Riccardo Semprini (27 March 1908 – 19 January 1990) known by his stage name Alberto Semprini, or Semprini, was an English pianist, composer and conductor, known for his appearances on...
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Marion Sumner born 28 March 1920
Marion Sumner ( 28 March 1920, Florida, USA - 17 August 1997, USA) known as the “Fiddle King of The South,” or “Fiddling Marion” was an influential country and bluegrass fiddler who performed with some...
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Donny Conn born 29 March 1930
Donny Conn (born Donald Claps, 29 March 1930 – September 2, 2015) was a singer and drummer of the late 1950’s music and comedy trio The Playmates. Other members were pianist and arranger Chic Hetti...
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Rod Allen born 31 March 1944
Rod Allen (March 31 1944 - January 10 2008) was best known as the leader of the group The Fortunes, who were one of many pop groups that rose to prominence in the wake of the Beatles. Their specialty...
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