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Bob Bain born 24 January 1924
Bob Bain (26 January 1924 – 21 June 2018) was perhaps the most-heard, yet unmentioned guitarist in history. With his trusty Telecaster, he created the soundtrack to American pop culture in the latter...
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Antonio Carlos Jobim born 25 January 1927
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 – December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim ), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Widely considered as one...
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Jean Knight born 26 January 1943
Jean Knight (born January 26, 1943) is an African-American soul/R&B/funk singer, best known for her 1971 Stax Records hit single, "Mr. Big Stuff". Born Jean Caliste in New Orleans, Louisiana, after...
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Jerome Kern born 27 January 1885
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century,...
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Lucio Alves born 28 January 1927
Lúcio Alves (January 28, 1927 - August 3, 1993 ), was a Brazilian singer , guitarist and composer . He was a musician much appreciated by the heads of the bossa nova movement including Tom Jobim and...
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Don Shirley born 29 January 1927
Don Shirley (January 29, 1927 – April 6, 2013) was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence Records during the 1950s and 1960s, experimenting with jazz...
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Marty Balin born 30 January 1942
Marty Balin (January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018), was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the founder and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the Californian...
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Fred Rich born 31 January 1898
Fred (Freddie) Rich (January 31, 1898 – September 8, 1956) was a Polish-born American pianist, bandleader and composer who was active from the 1920s to the 1950s. A major talent during the big-band...
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Bob Shane born 1 February 1934
Robert Castle Schoen (February 1, 1934 – January 26, 2020), known professionally as Bob Shane, was an American singer and guitarist who was a founding member of The Kingston Trio. In that capacity,...
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Sonny Stitt born 2 February 1924
Sonny Stitt (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop idiom. He was also one of the most prolific saxophonists, recording over 100 records in his lifetime. He...
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Johnny Bristol born 3 February 1939
John William Bristol (February 3, 1939 – March 21, 2004) was an American musician, most famous as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown label in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Johnny Bristol...
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Tony Fruscella born 4 February 1927
Tony Fruscella (February 4, 1927 – August 14, 1969) was a mellow, lyrical, cool American jazz trumpeter in the vein of Chet Baker who unfortunately lived a similarly addictive lifestyle that led to a...
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Bob Dunn born 5 February 1908
Robert Lee "Bob" Dunn (February 5, 1908 – May 27, 1971) was an American pioneer Western swing steel guitarist. Bob Dunn was born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, the oldest of four children. The son of a...
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Sax Kari born 6 February 1920
Sax Kari (February 6, 1920 – October 1, 2009), born Isaac Columbus Toombs Jr., sometimes known as Isaac Saxton Kari Toombs or simply Saxton Kari, was an American multi-instrumentalist, bandleader,...
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Juliette Gréco born 7 February 1927
Juliette Gréco ( 7 February 1927 – 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress and an icon of post-Second World War French bohemianism. Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier, France, the...
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Otis Leavill born 8 February 1943
Otis Leavill (February 8, 1937 – July 17, 2002) was an American R&B singer, songwriter and record company executive. Friendly, talented Otis Leavill Cobb was born February 8, 1937, in Dewey Rose,...
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Barry Mann born 9 February 1939
Barry Mann (born February 9, 1939) is an American songwriter and musician, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil. He has written or co-written 53 hits in the UK...
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Jimmy Durante born 10 February 1893
James Francis Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery,...
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Little Johnny Taylor born 11 February 1943
Little Johnny Taylor (February 11, 1943 – May 17, 2002) was one of the finest practitioners of the style of R&B called soul blues, which merges the vocal approach of black gospel with the blues. He...
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Mel Powell born 12 February1923
Mel Powell (February 12, 1923 – April 24, 1998) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, and the founding dean of the music department at the California Institute of the Arts. He served as a...
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