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Bernard Etté was born on September 13, 1898 in Kassel, Germany. The son of a hairdresser, he studied music formally at the Louis Spohr Conservatory in Kassel. He initially worked with Carl Robrecht as an instrumentalist, playing piano and banjo in addition to violin.
In the early 1920s he assembled his own ensemble, and took up a residency in Berlin, Germany and performed on radio. The group also recorded in the 1920s, often with traveling American musicians. During the 1930s, as the Nazi party rose to power, Etté shifted away from jazz to light music, and led a large orchestra during World War II.
He played for wounded soldiers on behalf of the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt in 1940 and for prison overseers at Auschwitz in 1944. After the war, he moved to the United States but was unsuccessful in adapting to new stylistic trends when he attempted a new career.
Returning to Germany, he led bands for luxury retreats in the East Frisian Islands and schlager and operetta backing bands in central Germany. By the end of the 1950s he quit actively playing music, and lived out his last years in an old folk’s home.
Bernard Etté, jazz and light music violinist and conductor died on September 26, 1973 in Mühldorf, Bavaria, Germany.
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Adam Rudolph was born September 12, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up on the South Side among jazz and blues musicians. In 1988 he met Yusef Lateef, and the two would collaborate and perform together for the next 25 years.
In 1992 Rudolph helped found the band Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures, a group of improvisers He has been the artistic director of and composer for Hu: Vibrational with Hamid Drake, Vashti International Percussion Ensemble and Go: Organic Orchestra. He has performed as half of the Wildflowers Duo with Butoh dance innovator Oguri.
Rudolph has released several albums as leader and has also recorded with musicians Sam Rivers, Omar Sosa, Wadada Leo Smith, Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, Foday Musa Suso, and Shadowfax
Composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph continues performing in the post-bop and world fusion medium.
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Carlos Salazar was born on September 11, 1955 in Havana, Cuba. Raised there he discovered his love and passion for percussion at a very young age. It wasn’t long before his curiousity led him to great opportunities, studying music at the National School of the Arts (ENA) in Havana. He learned the basics and principles of percussion while at the same time acquiring an additional degree in electronics from the University of Havana.
His love of percussion shifted to conga drumming, a key instrument in the Afro-Cuban street scene. Carlos then learned the discipline of the musical language and rythym of percussion through African teachers, teachers of the streets, considered the fathers of Latin percussion.
His musical style consists of a contemporary jazz flavor, making music interesting to play. After leaving Cuba in 1980 he has toured throughout the U.S. and has remained active within the musical scene in South Florida.
Percussionist Carlos Salazar who has not recorded and devotes himself entirely to his music and Afro-Cuban roots, spends his days content with the valued fact that he still has two hands to make music with.
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Craig S. Harris was born September 10, 1953 in Hempstead, New York. He graduated from the music program at State University of New York at Old Westbury and was influenced by its founder and director Makanda Ken McIntyre. He moved to New York City in 1978 established him with trombonists Ray Anderson, Joseph Bowie, and George E. Lewis.
He first played alongside another of his teachers at SUNY, baritone saxophonist Pat Patrick, in the Sun Ra Arkestra for two years. Harris then embarked on a world tour in 1979 with South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, formerly known as Dollar Brand. While on tour in Australia, he discovered the indigenous Australian wind instrument the didgeridoo, and added it to the collection of instruments he plays.
Craig subsequently performed with progressive musicians David Murray, Beaver Harris, Don Pullen, Sam Rivers, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams, Charlie Haden and many others, He also played in Lena Horne’s Broadway orchestra for a year. Along with Mark Isham composed the soundtrack for the 2021 film Judas and the Black Messiah.
He led his own ensembles, performed internationally and has recorded several albums. As leader, Harris. For the latter, he recorded with two groups. The Tailgater’s Tales was a quintet with clarinetist Don Byron, trumpeter Eddie Allen, Anthony Cox on double bass, and Pheeroan akLaff on drums. Harris’s large ensemble Cold Sweat was a tribute to the music of James Brown.
Trombonist Craig Harris, who has recorded since 1983 for India Navigation, Soul Note and JMT, continues to pursue his career.
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George Maycock was born on September 9, 1917 in Colón, Panama. He played in Panama with his band Chimbombo Swingjazz since 1940. With the dance and show music of Cuban Jaime Camino, he and his band came to Spain in 1949.
Together with the trumpeter Boogie Sergeant and drummer Big Fletchit, who played at Camino and stayed in Europe, they became the Chic Combo with the Jamaican bassist Noel George Gillespie. They operated from Basel, Switzerland then from Cologne, Germany to go on tour. On occasion saxophonist Jack Poll played with the quartet, before Wilton Gaynair joined in 1956, creating the George Maycock Quintet.
This band played modern jazz and continued to perform regionally and was rated the best black combo in this country by the 1980 Rheinische Post 1980. Later, Maycock moved to Düsseldorf, Germany where he was in the center of the local jazz scene. In the 1960s he had increasingly begun playing in dance bands. During the Seventies he toured with Fletchit and Ali Haurand in the trio and played with Jörn Behrens and Ralph Kleine-Tebbe in the Düsseldorf area.
Pianist George Maycock, who was one of the first Black musicians to perform authentic jazz in Central Europe after the Second World War, not on concert tours, but through intimate performances in jazz clubs, died on August 20, 1979 in New York City, New York.
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