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Marilyn Montez Moore was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 16, 1930. Her vocal style was similar to that of Billie Holiday’s, at twenty-six she recorded her only solo album as a leader in 1957 on the Bethlehem label titled Moody Marilyn Moore. With Jackie Paris she recorde another album titled Oh, Captain.
She was the first wife of saxophonist Al Cohn, who played on Moody Marilyn Moore, and the mother of guitarist Joe Coh. After she and Cohn separated and later divorced, Moore was left to raise her family and never recorded again.
Singer Marilyn Moore, whose short career was limited to activity during the 1950s, passed away on March 19, 1992 at the age of 61 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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Born Jeannette Schwager on June 15th in the Netherlands, Jeannette Lambert grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her Dutch and Indonesian parents loved jazz, and she started singing at the age of nine. From the age of 12, she performed with her brother, guitarist Reg Schwager, at coffee houses and music festivals. She did not have to venture far to perform regular jam sessions, which were held at her house when she was a teenager.
Particularly inspired by the older jazz musicians who participated, especially Herbie Spanier, he encouraged her to improvise as freely as possible. While she studied film production at Toronto’s York University during 1984-1986, Lambert also attended the Banff Summer Jazz Workshop in 1985, singing with the Cecil Taylor Workshop Big Band and taking lessons from Jay Clayton, Dave Liebman, and Julian Priester.
After periods living in Paris, New York, and Amsterdam, she settled in Montreal, married drummer Michel Lambert, and co-founded the record label Jazz from Rant with her brother and her husband in 1991. Jeannette’s music is inspired and influenced not only by other jazz singers but by flamenco, fado, and jaipongan. In addition to her singing and recording, she writes music to her own poetry and is an internet filmmaker.
Her several recordings, primarily on the Jazz from Rant label, include free improvisations, collaborations with pianist Paul Bley, and two volumes of Bebop for Babies, jazz versions of children’s melodies. Vocalist, poet, record label owner Jennette Lambert continues to compose, perform and record,
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Sid Phillips was born Isador Simon Phillips on June 14, 1907 in London, England into a Jewish family. He learned violin and piano as a child, and played reeds in his teens as a member of his brother’s European band. He got his start in the music business as a publisher and director for Edison Bell.
In 1930, Phillips began writing arrangements for Bert Ambrose, and joined Ambrose’s ensemble in 1933, remaining there until 1937. Towards the end of the decade he was playing in the United States on radio and freelancing in clubs.
During World War II, Sid served in the Royal Air Force, then put together his own quartet in 1946 and wrote several pieces for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He led a Dixieland jazz band of his own formation from 1949, and his sidemen variously included George Shearing, Colin Bailey, Tommy Whittle, and Kenny Ball.
Phillips’s first recordings under his own name were made in 1928. In 1937 through 1938, a number of his recordings were issued in the United States, through a contract he signed with Irving Mills and issued on Mills’ Variety label, as well as Vocalion, Brunswick and Columbia labels, though most of his recordings were made in England.
Clarinetist, arranger and bandleader Sid Phillips, who continued to record as a leader well into the 1970s, passed away on May 23, 1973 at aged 65 in Chertsey, Surrey, England.
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Born Garland Lorenzo Wilson on June 13, 1909 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. and in the 1930s worked in New York City nightclubs.
In 1932 the pianist joined Nina Mae McKinney on a European tour, worked extensively in England with local groups, and recorded with trumpeter Nat Gonella.
In the liner notes of the CD box l’intégrale Django Reinhardt ~ Vol 2 he is quoted as being accompanist of French singer Jean Sablon together with guitarist Django Reinhardt on two sides recorded on November 1, 1935 in Paris, France.
Returning to the United States in 1939, he remained there until 1951, when he moved to Paris, France. Pianist Garland Wilson remained in Paris until he passed away on May 31, 1954.
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Emmett Louis Hardy was born in Gretna, Louisiana on June 12, 1903 and lived much of his life in the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of New Orleans, Louisiana. A child prodigy, he was playing marvelously in his early teens. A musical highlight was a 1919 cutting contest where, after long and intense struggle, he succeeded in outplaying Louis Armstrong.
In his early teens he was a member of the Papa Jack Laine band, then worked in the Carlisle Evans Band and Norman Brownlee’s Orchestra of New Orleans. He belonged to a small band that worked with singer Bee Palmer. After moving to Chicago, Illinois he became a member of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. After returning to New Orleans he led his own band and played in the band of Norman Brownlee.
Hardy did not appear on any of the Rhythm Kings recording sessions, and never made any commercial recordings before his early death. He did metal work, made his own mouthpieces for his horn, and modified his cornet to add an additional spit-valve. When advancing tuberculosis started to make his breathing difficult, Hardy taught himself banjo so he could continue playing music.
Hardy and some of his musician friends made some home recordings on wax phonograph cylinders for their own amusement. As Hardy’s tuberculosis worsened and his death seemed inevitable, the friends decided to preserve the cylinders as a memento of Hardy’s playing. At least one cylinder survived to the start of the 1950s, however when Tulane University’s Jazz Archive was established in the late 1950s, however, a diligent search failed to turn up any of these recordings, which are, alas, presumed lost forever.
After returning to New Orleans he led his own band and played in the band of Norman Brownlee. Though he never recorded with Brownlee, he was a big influence on his replacement, Sharkey Bonano. Cornetist Emmett Hardy passed away from tuberculosis in New Orleans, just four days after his 22nd birthday on June 16, 1925. He was buried in Gretna.
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