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Herb Ellis born 4 August 1921
Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010), known professionally as Herb Ellis, was an American jazz guitarist whose polished, blues-inflected playing earned him critical acclaim as an...
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Dorothy Ashby born 6 August 1932
Dorothy Jeanne Thompson (August 6, 1932 – April 13, 1986), better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist and composer.Dorothy Thompson was born in Detroit. Her father, Wiley Thompson, was...
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Luckey Roberts born 7 August 1887
Charles Luckyth Roberts (August 7, 1887 – February 5, 1968), better known as Luckey Roberts, was an accomplished pianist and composer. Along with James P. Johnson, he is considered one of the founders...
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Joe Tex born 8 August 1935
Joseph Arrington Jr. (better known as Joe Tex; August 8, 1935 – August 13, 1982) was an American singer and musician who gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which...
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Charles "Chuck" Norris born 11 August 1921
Charles Eldridge Norris (August 11, 1921 – August 26, 1989) was an American jazz and blues guitarist.Considered a prototype West Coast bluesman, Norris was actually a Midwesterner. He was born in the...
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Margot Eskens born 12 August 1939
Margot Eskens (born 12 August 1939) is a German Schlager singer. Although virtually unknown outside the German-speaking world, lovely Margot Eskens was a big part of the German music scene in the 1950s...
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Shan Kaye born 13 August 1938
Shan Kaye (15 August 1938 - 14 July 2013) was a singer who shot to fame in the late 1950s as one third of the popular female vocal group The Kaye Sisters’Shan was born Shirley 'Shan' Palmer in Hull,...
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Lionel Morton born 14 August 1942
Lionel Morton (born Lionel Walmsley, 14 August 1942) is an English former musician and television presenter, who is best known as the lead singer of The Four Pennies..Morton was born in Blackburn,...
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Oscar Peterson born 15 August 1925
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist, virtuoso and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, simply "O.P." by his...
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Bill Evans born 16 August 1929
William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional...
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Ike Quebec born 17 August 1918
Ike Abrams Quebec (August 17, 1918 – January 16, 1963) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career in the big band era of the 1940s and then fell from prominence for a time until...
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Dale Ward born 18 August 1938
Dale Ward (August 18, 1938 - January 21, 2013) was a 1960s American pop singer and songwriter with expressive vocals. He is best known for the lovelorn ballad, "Letter From Sherry" (1963).Howard Dale...
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Eddie Durham born 19 August 1906
Eddie Durham (August 19, 1906 – March 6, 1987) was an American jazz guitarist who was one of the pioneers of the electric guitar in jazz. He was a guitarist, trombonist, composer, and arranger for the...
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Jimmy Raney born 20 August 1927
Jimmy Raney (August 20, 1927 – May 9, 1995) was an American jazz guitarist born in Louisville, Kentucky, known for his work from 1951 to 1952 and then from 1953 to 1954 with the Red Norvo trio...
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Roscoe Shelton born 22 August 1931
Roscoe Shelton (August 22, 1931 – July 27, 2002) was an American electric blues and R&B singer. He was a pivotal and influential voice who paved the way for other soul artists as the blues and rock...
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Wynonie Harris born 24 August 1915
Wynonie Harris (August 24, 1915 – June 14, 1969) was an American blues shouter and rhythm-and-blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics. He had fifteen Top 10 hits between...
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Lee Denson born 25 August 1932
Jesse Lee Denson (August 25, 1932 – November 6, 2007) was an American rockabilly singer and songwriter. His songs have been recorded by Elvis Presley, Billy Williams, and the Kuf-Linx.Lee Denson was...
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Jimmy Rushing born 26 August 1903
James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1903 - June 8, 1972) was an American blues shouter and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra...
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Lester Young born 27 August 1904
Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.Lester Young was one of the true jazz giants, a tenor saxophonist who came up...
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Gene Allison born 29 August 1934
Gene Allison (August 29, 1934 – February 28, 2004) was an American pioneer of the Nashville R&B sound in the 50’s.Gene Allison was born Versie Eugene Allison on August 29, 1934 in Pegram, Tennesee...
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