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Christian Scott, also known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah was born March 31, 1983 in New Orleans, Louisiana. A twin to brother Kiel, at the age of 13 he was given the chance to play with his uncle, jazz alto saxophonist Donald Harrison. A year later he was accepted into the New Orleans Center of Creative Arts where he studied jazz under the guidance of program directors, Clyde Kerr, Jr. and Kent Jordan.
After graduating NOCCA, Christian received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in 2004. While matriculating his last year he was member of the Berklee Monterey Quartet and recorded as part of the Art:21 student cooperative quintet. He studied under the direction of Charlie Lewis, Dave Santoro, and Gary Burton. He majored in professional music with a concentration in film scoring.
Scott has worked across musical genres with Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Donald Harrison, Karin Williams, Nnenna Freelon, Grace Kelly, Erin Boheme, X Clan, Prince, Mike Clark, David Benoit, Global Noize, Ledisi, Marcus Miller and Esperanza Spaulding, to name a few.
His debut album Rewind That on the Concord Record label garnered him a Grammy nomination and received the Edison Award in 2010 and 2012. Since 2002, he has released eight studio albums, and two live recordings. Trumpeter, composer and producer Christian Scott continues performing with his eight-piece ensemble his legacy in jazz.
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Shelton “Scad” Hemphill was born on March 16, 1906 in Birmingham, Alabama. While still in his teens when he played trumpet in the Fred Longshaw band that accompanied Bessie Smith on recordings in 1924–25. In 1924, at age 18, he enrolled at Wilberforce University in Ohio and was a member of Horace Henderson’s student band alongside the likes of Ted and Castor McCord.
Moving to New York late in the 1920s, he played with Benny Carter and Chick Webb before joining the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. He played with this group from 1931 to 1937, and then joined Louis Armstrong from 1937 to 1944. He followed with a five-year stint with Duke Ellington until 1949.
By the 1950s, he played occasionally in New York City but left music due to mounting health problems later in the decade.
Trumpeter Shelton Hemphill passed away in New York City on January 6, 1960 just two months and ten days before his 54th birthday. His demise was noted in the syndicated column of veteran music critic Ralph J. Gleason.
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Louis Albert Cottrell, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 7, 1911. Raised in an upper class Creole musical family, his father Louis Cottrell Sr. was an influential drummer and cornetist Manny Perez was his godfather. Growing up around John Robichaux, A.J. Piron and Barney Bigard, the latter giving him lessons as well as studying under Lorenzo Tio, Jr.
He began his career in the 1920s with the Golden Rule Orchestra and by 1925 was playing with “Polo” Barnes. Louis would go on to work with Chris Kelly, Kid Rena, on the riverboat SS Island Queen with Lawrence Marrero’s young Tuxedo Brass Band and with Sidney Desvigne.
During this period he became a prominent union organizer, joining Don Albert’s orchestra soon after, recording an album with the orchestra in 1935 under the Vocalion label. Trying his hand at composing, with Lloyd Glenn and Albert wrote You Don’t Love Me (True) that became one of the hits of the R&B New Orleans era for bandleader Paul Gayten.
During the 40s he had an enduring collaboration with Paul Barbarin, played with Piron and Desvigne, formed and recorded for the first time as a leader in 1961 with the Louis Cottrell Trio for Riverside Records Living Legends series and with Barbarin revived the Onward Brass Band. His sideman duties led him to perform and record with Peter Bocage, Jim Robinson, Harold Dejan, Thomas Jefferson, Sweet Emma Barrett, Avery Kid Howard, Waldren Joseph, and Polo Barnes.
In 1971 Louis formed the Heritage Hall Jazz Band, leading that ensemble up until his death. Under his leadership the band rivaled Preservation Hall and with Blanche Thomas on vocals played Carnegie Hall in 1974. He went on to make several television appearances on the Perry Como and Mike Douglas shows, had a cameo and recorded Academy Award nominated Big Lip Blues for the soundtrack of 1978 film Pretty Baby.
Clarinetist and saxophonist Louis Cottrell died suddenly at his home after a short illness on March 21, 1978 at the age of 67. Fittingly, he was honored with a jazz funeral, as thousands assembled in a small Gentilly Catholic church to bid him farewell.
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Red Saunders was born Theodore Dudley Saunders on March 2, 1912 in Memphis, Tennessee. Early in his career he played in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois playing with Stomp King. For a time, he worked with Tiny Parham at the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago.
In 1937, the Club DeLisa gave Saunders control of the house band, where he remained almost uninterrupted until the club’s closure in 1958. Among his sidemen were Leon Washington, Porter Kilbert, Earl Washington, Sonny Cohn, Ike Perkins, Riley Hampton, singer Joe Williams and Mac Easton.
Among the arrangers he employed were Johnny Pate and Sun Ra. Despite his regular gig and disinclination to go on the road, Red played with Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman, and recorded with Big Joe Turner.
He continued to lead a band at Chicago’s Regal Theater into the Sixties, and played with Little Brother Montgomery and Art Hodes at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in the 1970s. Drummer and bandleader Red Saunders, who also played vibraphone and timpani, passed away on March 5, 1981 in Chicago.
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Maxim Saury was born in Enghien-les-Bains, in the Val-d’Oise, France on February 28, 1928. The son of a professional violinist, Andrew “Kiki” Saury, he first took violin lessons between 1940 and 1942, but not suiting him, he turned to the clarinet.
In 1946, he joined the orchestra of Christian Azzi and the following year joined Claude Bolling before leaving in 1949 to mount a trio in 1951. Between 1955 and 1968, Saury played almost exclusively at Caveau de la Huchette in Paris, performed at all the major French jazz festivals including Cannes, Antibes, Nice and Juan-les-Pins.
Maxim represented the middle of French traditional jazz and was invited to perform on television shows and also appear in several films made in the late 1950s and early 1960s, particularly Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse, The Cheaters by Marcel Carne, My Uncle by Jacque Tati and Jacques Rozier’s Adieu Philippine.
Since the late 1960s, Maxim Saury performed regularly in concert in France and worldwide. In 2007, he was one of few performers selected for the four volume compilation The 100 Greatest Success of Saint-Germain-des-Prés , alongside Yves Montand, Boris Vian, Juliette Greco, Les Freres Jacques, Catherine Sauvage, Sidney Bechet, Marcel Mouloudji and Stephane Grappelli.
Clarinetist, conductor and arranger Maxim Suary, one of the symbols of revival of New Orleans jazz in Saint Germain-des-Pres during the Fifties and Sixties, passed away at the age of eighty-four, on November 15, 2012 at the Ambroise Pare Hospital in Boulogne-Billancourt, following heart problems.
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