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Charles Fambrough born 25 August 1950
Charles Fambrough (August 25, 1950 – January 1, 2011) was an American jazz bassist, composer and record producer from Philadelphia. Fambrough studied classical piano throughout his elementary and...
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Peter Appleyard born 26 August 1928
Peter Appleyard, OC (26 August 1928 – 17 July 2013) was a British–Canadian jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer. He spent most of his life in the city of Toronto, where for many years he was...
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Fernest Arceneaux born 27 August 1940
Fernest Arceneaux (August 27, 1940 – September 4, 2008) was a French speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer from Louisiana. A torch-bearer for the classic zydeco traditions personified by...
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Kenny Drew born 28 August 1928
 Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew (August 28, 1928 – August 4, 1993) was an American jazz pianist. Such was his virtuosity that it took Kenny Drew only three years from taking up the piano at the age of...
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Roger Sprung born 29 August 1930
Roger Sprung (born August 29, 1930, in New York City) is an American banjo player and teacher best known for introducing authentic bluegrass banjo picking styles to the folk music community in the...
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John Phillips born 30 August 1935
 John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader of the vocal group the Mamas & the Papas and remains frequently...
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Art Pepper born 1 September 1925
 Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. Active in West Coast jazz, Pepper came to...
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Floyd Council born 2 September 1911
Floyd "Dipper Boy" Council (September 2, 1911 - May 9, 1976) was an American blues guitarist and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular...
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Jimmie Davis born 11 September 1899
James Houston Davis (September 11, 1899 – November 5, 2000) was a nationally popular country music and gospel singer from the 1930s into the 1960s, occasionally recording and performing as late as the...
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Jewel Akens born 12 September 1933
 Jewel Akens (September 12, 1933* – March 1, 2013) was an American singer and record producer. Doo wop veteran Jewel Eugene Akens was born September 12, 1933, in Houston, Texas, the seventh of nine...
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Bill Monroe born 13 September 1911
William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American musician who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass...
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Luke Simmons born 15 September 1927
Luke Simmons (September 15, 1927*) was a Canadian Country singer. Luke was born in Vancouver, Canada. He enjoyed the country music he heard at barn dances and on the radio and took an active interest...
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Little Willie Littlefield born 16 September 1931
 Willie Littlefield, Jr., billed as Little Willie Littlefield (September 16, 1931 – June 23, 2013), was an American R&B and boogie-woogie pianist and singer whose early recordings "formed a vital...
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Dorothy Loudon born 17 September 1925
Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003) was an American actress and singer. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in...
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Clyde Moody born 19 September 1915
Clyde Moody (September 19, 1915 – April 7, 1989), also known as the "Hillbilly Waltz King" and sometimes as "The Genial Gentleman of Country Music" was one of the great founders of American Bluegrass...
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Vi Redd born 20 September 1928
Elvira "Vi" Redd (born September 20, 1928) is an American jazz alto saxophone player, vocalist and educator. She has been active since the early 1950s and is known primarily for playing in the blues...
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Henry Butler born 21 September 1949
Henry Butler (September 21, 1948 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz and blues pianist. He learned piano, drums, and saxophone in school. He received a college degree and graduate degree and taught at...
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Dorothy Hawkins born 22 September 1929
Dolores Hawkins (September 22, 1929 - January 15, 1987) was a rhythm & blues singer from Brooklyn, New York. Hawkins was born in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, and got an unusually early start...
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Jerry Cole born 23 September 1939
Jerald Edward Kolbrak (September 23, 1939 – May 28, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Cole, was an American guitarist who recorded under his own name, under various budget album pseudonyms and as an...
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