Biography: The Floating Jazz Festival Trio, The Flying Luttenbachers, The Fringe, The Gellers, The George Benson Quartet, The Georgians, The Goofus Five, The Halfway House Orchestra, The Happy Six, The Har-You Percussion Group,

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The Floating Jazz Festival Trio Biography, Photos, Pictures

The Floating Jazz Festival Trio comprised pianist Junior Mance, bassist Keter Betts and drummer Jackie Williams Among their recordings was At the 1996 Floating Jazz Festival, a collection of Duke Ellington standards

The Flying Luttenbachers Biography, Photos, Pictures

A product of the fertile music scene centered around Chicago’s Wicker Park area, the free jazz ensemble the Flying Luttenbachers was formed in 1990 by multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter, a veteran of area punk bands whose love of the music of avant-saxophonist Hal Russell inspired him to form a jazz group of his own

The Fringe
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Genre: Jazz

Tenor-saxophonist George Garzone, a well-respected educator at Berklee and a versatile improviser, formed the Fringe (along with bassist Richard Appleman and drummer Bob Gullotti) so as to have an outlet in order to improvise quite freely

The Gellers
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Genre: Jazz

The husband and wife duo of Herb and Lorraine Geller, who made the album The Gellers in 1955 on EmArcy They played together in a quartet in 1954 and 1955, but she died in 1958

The George Benson Quartet Biography, Photos, Pictures

These days, George Benson (born March 22, 1943, Pittsburgh, PA) is often described as a commercial R&B/pop singer who sometimes moonlights as a pop-jazz guitarist But early in his career — when Benson was still in his twenties — the jazz world thought of him as a guitar-playing hard bop/soul-jazz instrumentalist whose primary influences were Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian

The Georgians Biography, Photos, Pictures

The first small group to be drawn out of a big band and exist interdependently was the Virginians, which included members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in the early ’20s

The Goofus Five Biography, Photos, Pictures

In 1924 Ed Kirkeby, the manager of the California Ramblers, decided to form a small group taken from the larger orchestra to play novelties and hotter jazz numbers At first known as the Little Ramblers on its Columbia recordings, the quintet (comprised of trumpeter Bill Moore, Adrian Rollini on a goofus, pianist Irving Brodsky, banjoist Ray Kitchingman who was soon replaced by Tommy Felline, and Stan King on drums and kazoo) also recorded for Pathe as the Five Birmingham Babies and, most prolifically, for Okeh as the Goofus Five

The Halfway House Orchestra Biography, Photos, Pictures

Considering what has come to be the normal meaning of a “halfway house,” many listeners who are familiar with the lifestyles of the poor and musical could justifiably assume that the Halfway House Orchestra was some kind of entertaining diversion and/or treatment project for recovering addicts with musical talent

The Happy Six Biography, Photos, Pictures

Any group that gets to make nearly 100 records for the Columbia label over a three-year period would probably be happy The Happy Six, however, join an enduring if not overwhelming number of musical ensembles whose names come right out and announce emotional ecstasy

The Har-You Percussion Group Biography, Photos, Pictures

In the late ’60s race riots plagued major cities; in Harlem, these events forced educators to think of new and exciting ways to keep kids off the streets and interested in their education