by Bman | Mar 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
George Sylvester "Red" Callender (March 6, 1916 β March 8, 1992) was a jazz bass and tuba player, famous for turning down a chance to work with Duke Ellington's Orchestra and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars. Callender was born in Haynesville, Virginia. In the early...
by Bman | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Blues musician Nathaniel H. ββNatββ Reese (March 4, 1924-June 8, 2012) was born in Salem, Virginia. When he was four, Reeseβs family moved to Itmann, Wyoming County, where coal jobs were plentiful. In 1935, the family moved to Princeton where Reese heard a rich...
by Bman | Feb 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Claude Driskett Hopkins (August 24, 1903 β February 19, 1984) was an American jazz stride pianist and bandleader. Claude Hopkins was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1903. Historians differ in respect of the actual date of his birth. His parents were on the faculty of...
by Bman | Feb 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
b. 10 February 1920, Chestnut Mountain, Virginia, USA. Tinsley learned guitar when he was 11, and from the age of 18 played at social events. He acquired much of his repertoire from, and was stylistically influenced by, the records of Blind Boy Fuller and Buddy Moss....
by Bman | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Salena Jones (born Joan Elizabeth Shaw, January 29, 1944 in Newport News, Virginia) is an American jazz and cabaret singer. She was born Joan Elizabeth Shaw in Newport News, Virginia, the same home town as Ella Fitzgerald. Jones said, "I loved Sarah Vaughan so much...
