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Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson (born February 26, 1926 in Chicago; died February 4, 2008 in Manhattan, NYC) was a jazz pianist who might be best known as an influence on Herbie Hancock.

Self-taught, he began in Chicago clubs in the mid-1940s and played with Von Freeman and Charlie Parker, among others. Hired as Dinah Washington's accompanist, like other arrangers before him, he didn't last long with the cantankerous singer; fired in New York six weeks later, he stayed there.

In 1960 he recorded what might be his best regarded album with bassist Bill Lee and drummer Art Taylor. His student Herbie Hancock praised him highly saying that, "After hearing him play just once, I begged him to let me study with him."

Despite the respect of his peers, Anderson had difficulty finding work or popular acclaim due in large to his disabilities. He was blind and his bones were unusually fragile causing numerous fractures, which at times compromised his ability to perform at the times or places requested, although he continued to record until he was well into his 70s. Wikipedia.

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Chieli Minucci

Chieli Minucci (born in 1958) is an American contemporary jazz guitarist, composer, music producer, and arranger of Italian descent.

Minucci was born in New York City and is primarily known as the leader of the Grammy-nominated contemporary jazz group Special EFX.

Minucci with George Jinda & Special EFX have recorded 26 CDs, 8 of those being solo releases, and has recorded and performed with jazz artists Marion Meadows, Jay Beckenstein, Gerald Veasley, Lao Tizer, Nestor Torez, Bob Baldwin, and many others.

Also known as a composer for television and film, Minucci was nominated for several Daytime Emmy Awards and has won three, in 1998, 2007, and most recently in 2008, for his compositional work on CBS's The Guiding Light. Wikipedia.

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Chico Hamilton

Chico Hamilton (born Foreststorn Hamilton, September 20, 1921), is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California. He recorded his first album as leader in 1955 with George Duvivier (double-bass) and Howard Roberts (jazz guitar) for Pacific Jazz. In the same year Hamilton formed an unusual quintet in L.A. featuring cello, flute, guitar, bass and drums. The quintet has been described as one of the last important West Coast Jazz bands.

He performed at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1972 and 1973, then formed a new group called Players in 1975. Later he formed another group named Euphoria in 1987.

In 1997, Hamilton received the New School University Jazz and Contemporary Music Programs Beacons in Jazz Award in recognition for his "significant contribution to the evolution of Jazz." In 2002, he was awarded the WLIU-FM Radio Lifetime Achievement Award. At the IAJE in NYC January 2004, Hamilton was awarded a NEA Jazz Master Fellowship, presented to him by Roy Haynes. In December 2006, Congress confirmed the President's nomination of Chico Hamilton to the Presidents Council on the Arts. And in 2007, Hamilton received a Living Legend Jazz Award as part of The Kennedy Center Jazz in Our Time Festival, as well as receiving a Doctor of Fine Arts from The New School.

Hamilton has a resume that includes scores for film, original compositions, commercial jingles, albums as a leader, and countless international tours. Wikipedia.

Chico Hamilton - Topsy

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Chico Freeman

Chico Freeman (born Earl Lavon Freeman Jr.; July 17, 1949) is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman. He began recording as lead musician in 1976 with Morning Prayer, won the New York Jazz Award in 1979 and earned the Stereo Review Record of the Year in 1981 for his album The Outside Within.

Freeman began playing, inspired by artists such as Miles Davis. He went to Northwestern University in 1967 with a scholarship for mathematics and played the trumpet in the school, but did not begin playing the saxophone until his junior year. After practicing eight to ten hours per day and trying out for the saxophone section, Freeman quickly changed his major to music, and graduated in 1972. By that time he was proficient in saxophone, trumpet, and piano.

1976 saw the release of Freeman's first album as lead musician, Morning Prayer. The next year he moved to New York City, and widened his musical influences. The following years would be the most productive of his career, producing albums such as No Time Left, Tradition in Transition, and The Outside Within; the last of which earned him Record of the Year from Stereo Review.

He came to prominence in the late 1970s as part of a movement including Wynton Marsalis of modern players steeped in the traditions of jazz, recording for independent labels. Wikipedia.

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Charlie Shavers

Charles James Shavers (August 3, 1920 – July 8, 1971), known as Charlie Shavers, was an American swing era jazz trumpet player, arranger and composer, and one of his compositions, "Undecided", is a jazz standard.

Born in New York City, he originally took up the piano and banjo before switching to trumpet.

Shavers was an important part of Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra from 1945 until past TD's death in 1956. Although well-featured, this association kept Shavers out of the spotlight of jazz. He did however have occasional vacations in which he recorded with the Metronome All-Stars and toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic.

After Dorsey's death, Shavers often led his own quartet although he came back to the ghost band from time to time. During the 1960s, his range and technique gradually faded, until his death in 1971. Wikipedia.

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Charles Davis

Charles Davis (born 1933) is an American jazz baritone saxophonist who performed extensively with Archie Shepp and Sun Ra, among others.

Davis was born in Mississippi and raised in Chicago, Charles graduated from the famous DuSable High School, studied at the Chicago School of Music and was a private student of John Hauser.

In the 1950s he played in the bands of Billie Holiday and Ben Webster, Sun Ra, and Dinah Washington. Later he performed and recorded with Kenny Dorham with whom he had a musical association that lasted many years.

In 1964 he won Downbeat Magazine’s International Jazz Critics Poll for the baritone saxophon, and was member of the cooperative group “Artistry in Music” in the 1970s.

Charles Davis is a saxophone instructor of private students from The New School, a teacher at the Lucy Moses School and for over 25 years has been an instructor at the Jazzmobile Workshops. He has made eight of his own albums and is featured on over 100 recordings. Wikipedia.

Charles Davis - Live at 'Jazztone' Lörrach 2010

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Charles Fambrough

Charles Fambrough (August 25, 1950 – January 1, 2011) was a Jazz bassist, composer and record producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He originally studied classical piano but switched to bass when he was 13. In 1968, Fambrough began playing with local pit bands for musicals and after some freelancing in 1970, he joined Grover Washington, Jr.'s band, staying with the popular saxophonist up until 1974.

Fambrough was later a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers during the early 1980s.

After that time, he freelanced, and also played Freddie Hubbard, Airto Moreira, and Shirley Scott, among many others. Wikipedia.

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