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Dieter Antritter was born in Pforzheim, Germany on October 6, 1929. After the end of World War II he started first to learn guitar, then later he switched to soprano saxophone. A move to Stuttgart, Germany gave him the opportunity to connect with the local jazz-scene.
On holiday in Paris, France in 1949, he unsuccessfully attempted to meet Sidney Bechet. However, Dieter eventually met Charles Delaunay, who opened him to the possibility of jamming with contemporary jazz greats living in Paris that time. Improving his playing, he built up a network with a few well-known jazz musicians.
Returning to Stuttgart in 1952 he founded the Latin Jazz Band. He used his concerts as a platform for guest musicians from his Paris connection to perform. From this band the Quartier Latin Jazz Band emerged, which existed until at least 2009. During those years this band accompanied numerous guest soloists such as Michel Attenoux, Peanuts Holland, Mezz Mezzrow, Benny Waters and Nelson “Cadillac” Williams.
In 1960, this led to several recordings for Deutscher Schallplattenclub, all recorded in Stuttgart venues. Antritter was one of the world’s longest-serving bandleaders, who led his band for 63 years, from 1952 until his death in 2015.
Bandleader, soprano and alto saxophonist Dieter Antritter died on August 5, 2015 in Königsbach-Stein, Germany.
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Michel Gaudry was born on September 23, 1928 in Eu, France on 23 September 1928. He learned clarinet and piano as a child before switching to bass. Following studies at the Geneva Conservatory, he played with Michel Hausser, beginning his professional career in 1955. In the latter half of the 1950s he worked with Billie Holiday, Quentin Jackson, Carmen McRae, and Art Simmons.
In the early 1960s he was very active playing with Elek Bacsik, Kenny Clarke, Sonny Criss, Stephane Grappelli, Bud Powell, Stuff Smith, and Billy Strayhorn, as well as continuing a long time slot as a member of Jack Diéval’s group.
The Seventies he played with Gérard Badini’s group, Swing Machine, and was a regular performer at the Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice, France. In the 1980s he played with Jimmy Owens and Irvin Stokes.
In his later life, he dedicated himself to the history of World War II occupation of Normandy, France. Double bassist Michel Gaudry died on May 29, 2019 in Saint-Lô, France at the age of 90.
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Shafi Hadi was born William Curtis Porter on September 21, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to William Porter and Harrietti Porter. He received piano lessons from his grandmother at age 6. He went on to study musical composition at Howard University and University of Detroit. He performed with rhythm and blues artists such as Paul Williams, Ruth Brown, and the Griffin Brothers.
He recorded with bassist Charles Mingus between 1956 and 1958. He also recorded with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley. Hadi improvised the soundtrack music for John Cassavetes’s film Shadows, then returned to Mingus’s group in 1959. He also collaborated with Mary Lou Williams on her 1977 composition “Shafi”, although the extent of his contribution is unclear.
Between 1965 and 1969 Shafi co-wrote five songs with Lionel Hampton or Gladys Hampton: Bye, Bye, Hamp Stamps, No, Say No, A Sketch Of Gladys, and Mama Knows.
Tenor and alto saxophonist Shafi Hadi died in June 1976, at the age of 46.
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Jay Cameron was born in New York City on September 14, 1928. He began as an alto saxophonist but later recorded with bass clarinet, B-flat clarinet, and baritone saxophone. His career began in the early 1940s in Hollywood, California with Isaac M. Carpenter’s band, with whom he played until 1947.
Moving to Europe near the end of the decade he played with Rex Stewart, Bill Coleman, Roy Haynes and Henri Renaud in France and Italy. By the early 1950s Cameron was gigging around Belgium, Germany, and Scandinavia. Returning to Paris, France in 1955 he played steadily with a band that included Bobby Jaspar, Barney Wilen and Jean-Louis Chautemps.
Back in the United States in the mid-Fifties Jay played in the bands of Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Freddie Hubbard, Candido Camero, Bill Barron, André Hodeir, Hal McKusick, and Les and Larry Elgart. In 1960 he played with Slide Hampton, also led the International Sax Band and the Third Herdsmen, and late in the decade, he toured with Paul Winter.
Bass and B-flat clarinetist and baritone saxophonist Jay Cameron died in San Diego, California on March 20, 2001.
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Putte Wickman was born Hans Olof Wickman on September 10, 1924 in Falun, Sweden and grew up in Borlänge, Sweden where his parents hoped he would become a lawyer. He nagged them to allow him to go to high school in Stockholm, Sweden and when he arrived in the capital he still did not know what jazz was and probably the only 15 year-old who did not.
Not having access to a piano in Stockholm, he was given a clarinet by his mother as a Christmas present. As it turned out, he started to hang out with the worst elements in the class, those with jazz records. Wickman considered himself self-taught, having never taken classes on the instrument.
Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman were the role models for the young Wickman, who, in 1944 had turned to music full-time. He was taken on as band leader at Stockholm’s Nalen. He led a band at Nalen for eleven years, and during the 1960s he ran the big band at Gröna Lund and at Puttes, the club he co-owned, at Hornstull in Stockholm.
In 1994, Wickman received the Illis Quorum gold medal, today the highest award that can be conferred upon a private Swedish citizen by the government of Sweden.
Clarinetist Putte Wickman, who was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and active as a musician until shortly before his passing, died on February 14, 2006.
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