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Carl-Henrik Norin was born on March 27, 1920 in Västerås, Sweden. He first began playing professionally in the early 1940s with Gösta Tönne and Thore Ehrling. As a member of Ehrling’s ensemble, he composed the piece Mississippi Mood.
He led a sextet in Stockholm, Sweden in the 1950s and early 1960s, which played jazz as well as accompanying popular singers such as Bibi Johns. Among his sidemen were Jan Allan and Rolf Billberg.
He played with Harry Arnold, Roy Eldridge, Lars Gullin, Peanuts Holland, and Bjarne Nerem. Saxophonist Carl-Henrik Norin died on May 23, 1967, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Gary Bruno was born in New Jersey on March 26, 1962. Showing an interest in music at the age of five he began learning drums and two yers later started studying guitar. Taking weekly lessons he showed prodigious technique and a hunger for learning music. His parents gave him a radio that he took everywhere as early as age three. It only took a short period of guitar lessons that he began to learn the songs of the day from the radio.
By age thirteen Gary had his first professional job with his band. Hired by a family friend he played a Christmas party, and that job was the first of what would become a livelihood. By his junior year in high school he was playing three to four nights a week as well as teaching. All four years of high school also found him playing first chair in the local jazz ensemble and winning outstanding soloist awards two of the four years.
After high school he began to get calls for recording sessions from unsigned local songwriters and local producers creating jingle ads for radio. Local club dates with bands served as his night job, and the days found him teaching, recording and studying guitar. The club dates kept Bruno within the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania area with occasional outside tri-state travel.
Gary landed a seat in the Dave Mason Band, which took his playing to a national & international level. This led to playing Greenpeace concerts with John Denver. Moving to Las Vegas he got gigs playing the Las Vegas Strip as much as six nights a week. Leaving Las Vegas, he settled in Southern California where he currently resides.
Guitarist and educator Gary Bruno will continue composing, recording & performing.
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Jazz Poems
FOR ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS For the sound we revere we dub you art as continuum as spirit as sound of depth here to stay In my young years I heard you bopping and weaving messages I could only walk to where wood mates with skin I would have dubbed you godhead but your sound rolled and pealed I am the drumhead even though Blue Note don’t care nothing bout nothing but profit How you sound is who you are where your ear leans moaning or bopping from the amen corner of chicken and dumpling memories and places In my young years I would have dubbed you something strange as god of opiate heaven of brutal contact of bible and rifle memories But the drumhead rolled my name: How you sound is who you are like drumsound backing back to root roosting at the meeting place the time that has always been here Even here where wood mates with skin on wax to make memory, to place us even in this hideous place pp-ppounding pp-ppounding the ss-ssounds of who we are even in this place of strange and brutal design KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE | 1938~2018from Jazz Poems ~ Selected and Edited by Kevin Young
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Robert Philip Militello a.k.a. Bobby M. was born on March 25, 1950 in Buffalo, New York. He was groomed by the legendary Sam Scamacca at Buffalo’s iconic Lafayette High School in the 1960s.
During the Seventies, Militello went on tour with Maynard Ferguson and returned to Buffalo in the early 1980s to work as a freelance musician.
Moving to Los Angeles, California he spent the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s as a member of orchestras led by Bill Holman and Bob Florence. He toured and recorded with Dave Brubeck from 1982 to 2012.
Saxophonist and flautist Bobby Militello leads a quartet that performs concerts dedicated to Brubeck.
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Hank Roberts was born on March 24, 1954 in Terre Haute, Indiana. By the early Eighties made a number of recordings for the defunct JMT label, was a featured member of the Bill Frisell Quartet, and was an important voice in many groups of saxophonist Tim Berne.
Roberts also recorded three discs with the Arcado String Trio, an improvisational chamber group featuring Mark Feldman, violin, and Mark Dresser, double bass.
The 1990s saw him leaving Frisell’s group and discontinued touring. He sporadically released records, including with the progressive folk group Ti Ti Chickapea. Leaving his hiatus in 2008, Hank began touring and performing regularly, releasing Green on the Winter & Winter label. Stefan F. Winter’s subsequent label to JMT. Three years later they released his Everything Is Alive, as well as re-releasing his entire JMT catalogue.
Cellist and vocalist Hank Roberts, who emerged with the downtown New York City jazz scene of the 1980s, continues to be associated with its post-modern tendencies.
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