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Alan Richard James Skidmore was born the son of saxophonist Jimmy Skidmore on April 21, 1942 in London, England. He began his professional career in his teens, and early on toured with comedian Tony Hancock. In the 1960s, he appeared on BBC Radio, then worked with Alexis Korner, John Mayall, and Ronnie Scott.
Starting a band with Harry Miller, Tony Oxley, John Taylor, and Kenny Wheeler, they won awards at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. In the early Seventies, Alan started a saxophone-only band with John Surman and Mike Osborne.
He has worked with Mose Allison, Kate Bush, Elton Dean, Georgie Fame, Mike Gibbs, George Gruntz, Elvin Jones, Van Morrison, Stan Tracey, Charlie Watts, and Mike Westbrook.
Tenor saxophonist Alan Skidmore, who has recorded seventeen albums as a leader, continues to pursue the boundaries of his musc.
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Burton Franklin Bales was born on April 20, 1916 in Stevensville, Montana and began playing piano at age twelve. After moving to the West Coast in the 1930s, he played in hotels and nightclubs. He performed regularly in San Francisco, California in the 1940s, with Lu Watters’s Yerba Buena Jazz Band.
Drafted in 1943 into the Army Burt only had one opportunity to record with that group on a brief session with Bunk Johnson. Discharged for myopia, he led his own band from 1943 to 1946 before taking an extended residency at San Francisco’s 1018 Club.
He played with Turk Murphy at the end of the Forties, then with Bob Scobey and Marty Marsala. Between 1954 and 1966 he played mostly solo, with one of his regular gigs being at Pier 23.
Stride pianist Burt Bales, who recorded extensively for Good Time Jazz, Arhoolie, ABC-Paramount, and Euphonic record labels, transitioned on October 26, 1989 in San Francisco.
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Three Wishes
More girl talk commenced where Nica was able to ask Dinah Washington what her three wishes would be if she was given them. Her reply was:
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“Honey, if I told you, you’d faint! Well, all right. I wish I had three little girls ~ triplets.”
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“Health and happiness for my two boys that I have. The last one is private.”
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Richard Cully was born on April 19, 1949 in Manhattan, New York. He began his musical journey at the age of 16 studying with James Rago, Professor of Percussion at the University of Louisville. While still in high school, he formed a very popular quartet, The Charades, then went on to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. There he studied with Alan Dawson and continued his studies with former “Tonight Show” drummer Ed Shaughnessy.
Early in his career Dick performed a variety of musical styles, pop, rock, disco, jazz and country. However, in 1982, he formed the Dick Cully Big Band, a high energy, exciting unit performing a wide variety of arrangements for all age groups. In 1984, he became an artist/endorser for the world famous Slingerland Drum Company.
Cully has worked with Toni Tennille, Sandy Duncan, Florence Henderson, Frank Gorshin, Ray Anthony, Buddy Morrow, Skitch Henderson, Patti Page, Nanette Fabray, Les Elgart, Connie Haines, Bobby Rydell, comedians Foster Brooks and George Kirby. In 1989, the Dick Cully Big Band was chosen as “One of the best bands in the nation” by Down Beat magazine and featured on Black Entertainment Network’s “Jazz Discovery” television program.
Recognized as an educator and clinician, he is the author of Instructional Drum Videos The Workout, Secrets of the World’s Greatest Drummer and More Secrets of the World’s Greatest Drummer, which are in-depth analysis of the late Buddy Rich. Drummer Dick Cully continues to perform and lead his band.
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Susanna Lindeborg was born on April 18, 1952 in Gothenburg, Sweden and began classical training on piano at a young age which turned into work with jazz and improvisation, showing to be her right element. She started her professional musical career in the middle of the Seventies.
Susanna went on to mix acoustic and electronic instruments, which has been known most of all through the group Mwendo Dawa, which she leads and tours together with saxophone player Ove Johansson. Writing her own music for the group, she also toured with the female jazz group Salamander during the beginning of the 1980s. Both Mwendo Dawa and Salamander attracted a lot of attention on the European continent and in the United States.
She currently tours with her Lindeborg/Johansson Duo and Natural Artefacts. Her performances are both in the world of improvisation music, the world of electro~acoustic music, and solo improvisations. With the release of her first solo compact disc in 1989, she parlayed the acceptance into some work in Germany with some radio and TV recordings. Avant~garde pianist Susanna Lindeborg continues to push the boundaries of her music.
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