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Norman Simmons, Pianist Who Made an Elegant Art Out of Accompaniment, Dies at 91

Jazz House Kids Norman Simmons, a pianist, composer, arranger and educator whose multidimensional jazz career featured a series of high-profile associations with singers like Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Joe Williams and Anita O’Day died on Thursday in Mesa, Ariz. He was 91, and lived in Lakewood, N.J. The cause was multiple myeloma, singer Antoinette Montague, a close friend, tells WBGO. Norman Simmons, left, backing saxophonist Wardell Gray at the Beehive Lounge in Chicago, mid-1950s. During a career spanning more than 65 years, Simmons specialized in a precise and nuanced style at the piano, with a keen sense of dynamic variation and harmonic color. For the first half of the 1950s he was a house pianist at the Beehive Lounge in Chicago, backing traveling greats like Wardell Gray and Lester Young. He was part of the band that played with bebop titan Charlie Parker in Feb. 1955, during Parker s final appearance in Chicago.

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The Drabkin/Gunnison Quartet

Saxophonist Harry Drabkin is a Berklee College of Music graduate as well as a faculty alumni where he performed in the Recording Band, Faculty Jazz Ensemble and more. His influences come from Miles, Coltrane, Cannonball and Charlie Mariano. He recently retired as Chief of Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina and returned to Denver where he is active in our local jazz scene. Denver jazz legend Eric Gunnison was raised in a musical family in Buffalo, NY and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating with a BA in music composition in 1979. He lives in Denver where he has been a mainstay in the music scene for 19 years. Eric has toured and recorded with the iconic jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, and trumpeter Ron Miles. In addition, he has performed in concert with Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Phil Woods, Bobby Shew, John McNeil and Eddie Gomez. Since 1991 Gunnison has also been the pianist and a composer/arranger for the cooperative band Convergence – arguab

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Collection Showcases 20 Years Of Louis Armstrong's Studio Work

Collection Showcases 20 Years Of Louis Armstrong's Studio Work
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Collection Showcases 20 Years Of Louis Armstrong's Studio Work

Collection Showcases 20 Years Of Louis Armstrong's Studio Work
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Collection Showcases 20 Years Of Louis Armstrong's Studio Work

Collection Showcases 20 Years Of Louis Armstrong's Studio Work
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