Jimmy Blanton

Jimmy Blanton
There is an unbelievably tragic symmetry between the lives of Jimmy Blanton and Charlie Christian. Both were string players who broke into a major big band in the fall of 1939, completely rewrote the vocabularies of their instruments, never led recording sessions of their own, played at the prophetic birth-of-bop jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, and died from the same illness in their twenties in the same year. In Blanton's case, he fractured the 4/4 meter straitjacket that had...
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Duke Ellington 24 Classic Hits
24 Classic Hits - Duke Ellington
By: Duke Ellington
Credited Role:Bass
Song List: Listen to Songs by Ellington, Duke East St. Louis Toodle-Oo, Creole Love Call, Black Beauty
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Various Artists Swing Time! The Fabulous Big Band Era 1925-1955
Swing Time! The Fabulous Big Band Era 1925-1955 - Various Artists
By: Various Artists
Credited Role:String Bass
Song List: Listen to Songs by Swing Time! The Fabulous Big Band Era 1925-1955 Sweet Georgia Brown, Sugar Foot Stomp, Birmingham Breakdown
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