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George Nelson Biography, Photos, Pictures

The surname Nelson having had a great deal of acknowledged impact on the New Orleans jazz scene, it may not seem like much of a loss, at least statistically, for George Nelson to be relegated to shadowy mystery man status

George Oldham Biography, Photos, Pictures

George Oldham is one of two brothers from Chattanooga who were active on the Chicago jazz scene in the ‘30s and ‘40s, performing together as members of the Louis Armstrong Big Band circa 1933

George Probert Biography, Photos, Pictures

As a largely self-taught soprano saxophonist and occasional clarinetist, George Probert was one of the younger players in the Dixieland revival bands of the 1950’s Probert had important associations with Bob Scobey (1950-53), Kid Ory (1954) and particularly the Firehouse Five Plus Two (from 1954 until their final record in 1969)

Gabor Szabo
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Genre: Jazz

Gabor Szabo was one of the most original guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, mixing his Hungarian folk music heritage with a deep love of jazz and crafting a distinctive, largely self-taught sound

George Robert Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the finest jazz musicians born in Switzerland, altoist George Robert has long considered his main influences to be Charlie Parker and Phil Woods He started on piano when he was eight, and clarinet at ten, playing with a family band that included his four brothers

George Russell Biography, Photos, Pictures

While George Russell has been very active as a free-thinking composer, arranger and bandleader, his biggest effect upon jazz has been that of the quieter role of theorist His great contribution, apparently the first by a jazz musician to general music theory, was a book with the intimidating title The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, where he concocted a concept of playing jazz based on scales rather than chord changes

George Schuller Biography, Photos, Pictures

Schuller was born in New York City, but moved to Boston at a young age He received his bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1982

George Shearing Biography, Photos, Pictures

For a long stretch of time in the 1950s and early ’60s, George Shearing had one of the most popular jazz combos on the planet — so much so that, in the usual jazz tradition of distrusting popular success, he tends to be underappreciated

George Stafford Biography, Photos, Pictures

This drummer had a relatively short career but can be heard on recordings of classic jazz from the ’20s and ’30s including sides with trumpeters Jabbo Smith and Henry ‘Red’ Allen and trombonist Jack Teagarden

George T. Simon Biography, Photos, Pictures

Only Stanley Dance currently rivals George T Simon’s longevity as a jazz writer Simon played drums early on and even performed briefly with Glenn Miller’s struggling orchestra in 1937, but writing was his true talent