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with Lionel Hampton. After playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force, he

aldron. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956, he performed with many leading jazz musicians of the day, including John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and later Herbie Hancock. Byrd's first regular group was a quintet that he co-led from 1958-61 with baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, an ensemble

ant job as a pianist with the Benny Carter's big band (1944), worked with Count Basie (1944) and made f

The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets (1987), being accompanied by Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, and closing her career with brilliant tributes to Thelonious Monk, Carmen Sings Monk (1990), and Sarah Vaughan, Sarah: Dedicated to You (1991). As a result of her early friendship with Billie Holiday, she never pe

n New York City and Boston areas. The Mike Block Band presents an exciting and genre-bending combinati

and electronic jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock. As the immortal Miles Davis said in his autobiography, "Herbie was the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and I haven't heard anybody yet who has come after him." Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano c

dist, and composer. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the =irth o

ding separate duet tours with Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock, a quarte= with Michael Brecker, trios with Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes, tributes t= Thelonious Monk, and even some classical music. In 1985, Chick Corea formed a new fusion group, the E=ektric Band, which eventually featured bassist John Patitucci

n New York City and Boston areas. The Mike Block Band presents an exciting and genre-bending combinatio

tic and electronic jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock. As the immortal Miles Davis said in his autobiography, “Herbie was the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and I haven’t heard anybody yet who has come after him.” Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano con