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Jaimie Breezy Branch was born June 17, 1983 in Huntington, New York and started playing trumpet at age nine. At 14 she moved to Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music and after graduating moved back to Chicago and began working as a musician, organizer, and sound engineer on the local music scene. She performed in Chicago and New York with her trio Princess Princess, with bassist Toby Summerfield and drummer Frank Rosaly, and in other trios before founding the band Block and Tackle with Jason Stein, Jeb Bishop, and Jason Roebke.
By 2012 Branch had moved to Baltimore, Maryland where she worked toward a master’s degree in Jazz performance from Towson University. At this time she also founded the record label Pionic Records, which released the music of her group Bomb Shelter. After two years, she dropped out of Towson, and six months later she moved to New York to seek treatment for heroin addiction.
In 2015 Jaimie moved to Brooklyn, New York where she began working with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mike Pride, Luke Stewart, Jason Nazary, Tcheser Holmes, and many more. In addition, she performed on albums with independent rock groups. In 2017 she released her debut solo album, Fly or Die, with Tomeka Reid, Jason Ajemian, Chad Taylor, Matt Schneider, Ben LaMar Gay, and Josh Berman. Fly or Die was chosen as one of NPR Music’s Top 50 Albums of 2017.
Citing Don Cherry, Axel Dörner, Booker Little, Miles Davis, and Evan Parker among her musical influences. Jaimie Branch transitioned at home in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn on August 22, 2022, at the age of 39.
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René “Rudy” Bruder was born on June 15, 1914 in Brussels, Belgium. His father was a bandleader and Rudy played in his father’s group in the mid-1930s. He then joined Jean Omer’s group, accompanying visiting American musicians such as Benny Carter, Bill Coleman, Coleman Hawkins, and Bobby Martin.
He worked with Omer through the early 1940s. He also recorded several times with Jean Robert and Gus Deloof. He led his own band, which recorded in the early 1940s and again in 1946.
Pianist Rudy Bruder retired from music and according to sources is 108 yers old.
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Peter Naphtali Lemer was born June 14, 1942 in London, England and studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Sven Weber and John Gardner, privately with Thomas Rajna, and then at workshops in London run by Jack Goldzweig. He then went to New York to study double bass with David Walter, attended workshops run by Bill Dixon, and studied piano with Jaki Byard and Paul Bley.
In 1965, Lemer formed a trio with John Stevens and Jeff Clyne, which opened the Little Theatre Club. In 1966, he formed the Peter Lemer Quintet, with drummer Jon Hiseman, tenor saxophonist George Khan, baritone saxophonist John Surman and bassist Tony Reeves. They successfully played a season at Ronnie Scott’s that helped to pave the way for the British free jazz movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In 1969 Peter delved into experimental jazz with the group Spontaneous Music Ensemble,then joined Barbara Thompson that developed into Thompson forming Paraphernalia with husband Jon Hiseman. Paraphernalia became the most frequently performing jazz-oriented group in Europe. By 1974 he joined Gilgamesh, then became an in-demand session player and became a member of rock band Ken Elliot’s Seventh Wave.
The following year he joined Ginger Baker, Mr Snips, and The Gurvitz brothers in the Baker Gurvitz Army. His next move was with Jan Dukes de Grey briefly and then on to Mike Oldfield’s fifty-piece touring band as one of two keyboard players. Most recently Lemer has worked with the band In Cahoots, recording with them as well as with Paraphernalia.
Pianist and keyboardist Peter Lemer currently plays with the Spanish Harlow Orchestra and coaches piano, improvisation, and music technology. He is active in lobbying to end global hunger and poverty.
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Charles Anthony Elgar was born on June 13, 1879 in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 13, 1879. From age 5 he played violin and also played trumpet. He studied music in Wisconsin and Illinois.
Elgar played in Chicago, Illinois from 1903 with the Bloom Theater Philharmonic Orchestra, but returned to his hometown late in the decade of the 1900s. He remained there until about 1913 when he returned to Chicago, putting together a band the same year. His band played at the Navy Pier Ballroom, Hattie Harmon’s Dreamland Ballroom from 1917 until 1922 and opened the old Savoy Ballroom in 1928.
With his band Charles toured in the revue Plantation Days and traveled to London, England though he did not accompany it on this trip. However, he did play with Will Marion Cook’s Orchestra in Europe. He went on to lead bands in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1925 to 1928, making several recordings with Elgars Creole Orchestra that he led at the Wisconsin Roof Gardens in Milwaukee and again in Chicago, 1926-30.
His sidemen included Manuel Perez, Lorenzo Tio, Louis Cottrell, Jr, Barney Bigard, Darnell Howard, and Omer Simeon. He made four recordings as leader of the Creole Orchestra. He concentrated on teaching in the 1930s, and worked as a union official later in his life. He was a founder and charter member of the local branch of the American Federation of Musicians, AFL-CIO, Local 2018.
Violinist, teacher and jazz bandleader Charles Elgar transitioned in August 1973 in Chicago.
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Guy Eugène Hilarion Pedersen was born on June 10, 1930 in Grand-Fort-Philippe, France. Coming from a family of popular musicians, their story begins in 1855 with all members of his maternal family being fiddlers from father to son. His uncles and his grandfather played all the balls of the region and his great-grandfather composed Tiger Rag, a jazz standard.
He began studying music theory around 1943 at the age of 13, taking free lessons at the Roubaix conservatory until 1952. Already passionate about jazz, he listened to Hugues Panassié ‘s radio broadcasts and bought his first American records by Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Lee Konitz. In 1950 he won the prize for best double bass player at the Brussels, Belgium competition, then Jazz Hot in Paris, France and decided to become a musician.
Beginning in Paris with singer Fats Edward, he went on to play with pianist Henri Renaud and drummer Jean-Louis Viale at Tabou, and at Ringside founded by Sugar Ray Robinson. Guy followed this working with Jacques Hélian and Claude Bolling to learn the trade of a large orchestra. From 1955 to 1966, he was a member with drummer Daniel Humair of one of Martial Solal trios, recording the historic Jazz à Gaveau in 1962.
Pedersen and Humair then joined the Swingle Singers to record the group’s second album. They traveled around the world with them, even passing through the White House in 1966. By 1973 he was touring with Baden Powell, recording over a dozen records with him. Between 1973 and 1980, he recorded seven albums and toured frequently with Jean-Christian Michel .
Leading an active career as a studio musician during this period he also appeared on television variety shows accompanying the group Les Troubadours. The late Sixties saw him composing, writing a lot of music for short films. Some of his recordings on Tele Music and Montparnasse 2000 are now cult, especially among disc jockeys.
A serious heart attack in 1977 sidelined the bassist from music and retiring permanently, he became a professional antique dealer. Double bassist, composer and antique dealer Guy Pedersen transitioned on January 4, 2005 in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France at the age of 74 years old.
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